About Sophie Vermooten

Sophie Vermooten is a hydrogeologist with more than 20 years of experience. She is an experienced project leader, client-oriented, leading multi-disciplinary teams and with good multi-cultural communication skills. The projects she led focused on drought forecasting, mitigation and adaptation, drinking water supply, groundwater pollution, water scarcity related risks and most recently cyclone driven disaster risk reduction. The diversity in topics enables her to integrate many aspects of water in the projects she leads and approach water projects from different angles.

She has worked in different countries like China, Syria, Yemen, Italy, Kuwait, Tunisia, Morocco, Madagascar, South Africa, Colombia and Australia.

From 2006 to 2010 she worked at IGRAC, the UN International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre, in the Global Groundwater Monitoring Network and the transboundary groundwater programme.

At Water Europe she was appointed as one of the members of the Policy Advisory Committee, representing the European research institutes.

She is the Deltares region manager for Europe, responsible for setting out the strategy to position Deltares in that region.

Sophie is currently one of the team leaders of the Dutch Disaster Risk Reduction and Surge Support (DRRS) team leaders pool and Think Tank, coordinated by RVO/Dutch Enterprise Agency.

Language skills; Bilingual French and Dutch. Other languages; English (Fluent), Spanish and German.