Prof Hall is Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2010). His research focuses upon management of climate-related risks in infrastructure systems, in particular relating to various dimensions of water security, including flooding and water scarcity. Prof Hall developed the theoretical basis for flood risk assessment methods that are now widely used in the UK and internationally. Prof Hall is a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation, the Engineering Policy Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Public Voice Committee of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was a member of the panel conducting the Institution of Civil Engineer’s 2014 State of the Nation Infrastructure assessment, and until 2015 he was co‐chair of the Global Water Partnership / OECD Task Force on the Economics of Water Security and Sustainable Growth.