Brad Udall is a Senior Water and Climate Research Scientist/Scholar at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Institute. Brad’s expertise includes climate change, hydrology, and related policy issues of the American West. He is a contributing author to the 4th National Climate Assessment due released in 2018, a contributing author to the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, and the lead author of the water sector chapter of the 2009 Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. He has provided congressional testimony, input to several National Academy of Science panels, and has given hundreds of talks on climate change impacts to water resources, water law, and water policy. He is a co-investigator with the Department of Interior Southwest Climate Science Center and a collaborator with the new USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub. Brad was formerly the Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and Environment at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the University of Colorado - NOAA Western Water Assessment.