Dr Rutger de Graaf

Director,

Blue21

Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther is director and founding partner of DeltaSync, Blue21 and Indymo. A civil engineer with a MSc and PhD of Delft University of Technology, he expanded his knowledge in governance, sustainability, transition management, resilience, and design. His firms have realised iconic floating projects, including the Floating Pavilion Rotterdam, and Floating Ecohomes, Harnaschpolder Delft and more recently, the innozowa floating solar project. In 2011 Rutger was appointed Applied Research Professor of Water Innovation at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and he is (co-)author of various books, book-chapters, and peer review journal articles.