Matthijs Bouw is the Dutch founder of One Architecture and Urbanism (ONE), an award-winning Amsterdam and New York-based firm. ONE is a global leader in the use of design to conceive and advance climate adaptation and mitigation projects, including Manhattan’s coastal protection, and many large scale nature-based solution projects around the world. At the Weitzman School of Design, he directs the Urban Resilience Certificate Program, is a Professor of Practice, the McHarg Center fellow for Risk and Resilience and a fellow at the Institute of Urban Research. He is the co-editor of Building with Nature: creating, implementing and scaling Nature-based Solutions (nai010publishers, 2020).