Neil Grigg is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy, Auburn University, and Colorado State University, and has experience in higher education, government, and consulting, as well as the military. His research and teaching focus on water resources management, infrastructure systems and pipelines. He has been director of the state water institutes in Colorado and North Carolina and was head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State from 1991 to 2000. He was awarded the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), the International Water Resources Association, Best Paper Award (2008), and American Water Works Association, Management Division Best Paper Award (2006).