Andrew Fahlund leads the Water Foundation’s healthy watersheds program, which seeks to protect and restore the watersheds of the western US, from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River and Delta to the Lower Colorado River, Snake River, and Rio Grande. Andrew works closely with Water Foundation staff and partners to craft strategy, develop and execute projects and policies, and share lessons learned to protect watersheds from their forested headwaters to their broad floodplains and balance demands on flows and groundwater, so that people and nature can thrive together.
Before joining the Water Foundation, Andrew was the executive director of the Water in the West program at Stanford University and worked for 15 years in the Washington, DC, office of American Rivers, where he ultimately served as senior vice president for conservation. Andrew received an MS in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment and a BA in Anthropology from Colorado College.
