Dale Morris is Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Charleston, SC. Morris’ primary role is the integration of comprehensive water management, planning and adaptation processes into City policy, land-use, and water projects and the addition of broader resilience approaches to City operations. Morris is the City’s lead for the USACE Charleston Peninsula Coastal Storm Risk Management Project, the City’s Comprehensive, Integrated Water Plan, its Flooding and Sea Level Rise Strategy and other key projects. He is a co-founder of the Dutch Dialogues™, a workshop process that integrates stormwater, groundwater, tidal and surge risks with planning and engineering and has been implemented in New Orleans, coastal Virginia, Houston, and Charleston. Morris previously served as Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Water Institute of the Gulf, an applied, technical research not-for-profit based in Louisiana, and as Senior Economist at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC, responsible for the Dutch Government’s water management and adaptation work across the US. Morris hold a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. from the University of Virginia.