Dr James Cullis is a water resources engineer with nearly 20 years of experience working on water resource and climate change related studies across Africa. He is a Technical Director at Zutari in the Water Resource group based in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Expertise Leader for Sustainability at Zutari. For two years he served as the global service group leader for water for Aurecon before the demerger of Zutari from the global Aurecon group in 2019. James has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Cape Town, an MA (oxon) in Politics Philosophy and Economics and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management both from Oxford University in the UK. He obtained is PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the USA in 2011.
