Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble is currently Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic Lead at Southern Water, a water utility company based in the South East of England. She was previously a Principal Nature-Based Solution specialist at JBA Consulting and, before then, Principal Flood Risk Scientist at the Environment Agency, responsible for the development of the UK's Natural Flood Management Evidence Directory. She was a co-author of the International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-based Features Flood Risk Management.