Emma Brown

Technical Director

Emma Brown is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Technical Director with over 25 years’ international experience in project management, flood forecasting and warning, and in leading supporting research programmes.

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Emma is in charge of HR Wallingford’s Flood Forecasting and Software Team. She leads multi-disciplinary technical teams to configure and implement flood modelling, forecasting and warning solutions, ranging from small-scale river basins to national-scale systems. 

Emma has conducted research into the development of more effective flood forecasting systems, forecast accuracy assessment, and tools for probabilistic flood risk forecasting.