{"id":88089,"date":"2021-01-27T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=88089"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:54:36","slug":"mott-macdonald-climate-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/mott-macdonald-climate-advisor\/88089\/","title":{"rendered":"Mott MacDonald appoints new associate climate advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mottmac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mott MacDonald<\/a> has appointed Nikki van Dijk, a chartered environmentalist, as associate climate advisor in its UK water and environment business<\/h2>\n<p>Nikki van Dijk joins the firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/climate-change-and-coastal-flood\/87401\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change<\/a> and sustainability team and will provide strategic direction and client focus, as well as using her considerable experience to continue to raise the profile of these issues that impact people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>Dijk has 15 years\u2019 experience in consultancy and specialises in climate risk and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>She has successfully led specialist climate resilience teams and has a strong track record of managing and delivering climate change projects for a range of clients. She joins Mott MacDonald from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisl.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dijk is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciwem.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management<\/a> (CIWEM), and a member of their climate change technical panel.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 she also became a Fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Geographical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dijk is a leading voice on climate resilience and recently delivered a paper on delivering resilience through Environmental Impact Assessment at the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<h3>Commitment to ensuring sustainability<\/h3>\n<p>Nikki van Dijk, said: \u201cWithin the industry, Mott MacDonald is at the forefront of climate change resilience, mitigation and sustainability and I have long admired the firm\u2019s clear stance on this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be joining Mott MacDonald at this time is an exciting opportunity and I\u2019m looking forward to getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hill, general manager of the water and environment business, added: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted that Nikki is joining our climate change and sustainability team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer appointment will further strengthen our offering in this vital sector and reflects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-neutral-by-2020\/69188\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mott MacDonald\u2019s commitment<\/a> to ensuring climate and sustainability remains at the centre of how we do business.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mott MacDonald has appointed Nikki van Dijk, a chartered environmentalist, as associate climate advisor in its UK water and environment business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[693,882,430,673,279,661,81864,465],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-climate-change","8":"tag-employment","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-hr","13":"tag-mott-macdonald","14":"tag-sustainable-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mott MacDonald appoints new associate climate advisor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mott MacDonald has appointed Nikki van Dijk, a chartered environmentalist, as associate climate advisor in its UK water and environment business\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/mott-macdonald-climate-advisor\/88089\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mott MacDonald appoints new associate climate advisor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mott MacDonald has appointed Nikki van Dijk, a chartered environmentalist, as associate climate advisor in its UK water and environment business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/mott-macdonald-climate-advisor\/88089\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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