Prof. Lindsay Beevers received her M.Eng. in Civil Engineering with Geology and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 1999 and 2004, respectively. She joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2022 as the Chair in Environmental Engineering. She is a Civil Engineer with over 20 years of experience. She has worked both in industry as an engineer (Jacobs 2003–2007) as well as in academia. From 2007 to 2010 she worked in the Netherlands at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (now known as IHE Delft) where she was involved in education, capacity building, and research projects in river systems across the world. Most of her work was focused in Africa on the Nile and the Zambezi basins, and Asia on the Mekong river. In 2010 she joined Heriot-Watt University and in 2016 was awarded an EPSRC LWEC Challenge Fellowship to focus on Water Resilient Cities, focusing on climate change uncertainty and how we can adapt to its impacts on UK cities. In addition, she was involved in research on climate change impacts on water resources across India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America.