Floor Brouwer is Adjunct Professor at UNU-FLORES, working primarily on the conceptual advancement of the Resource Nexus. He is an environmental economist working on the integrated management of natural resources. His focus on the conceptual advancement of the resource nexus includes targeted resource nexus studies (e.g. on the agri-food nexus), education, capacity development and quality assurance. He was scientific coordinator of an EU-funded project on the sustainable and integrated management of the nexus (SIM4NEXUS). He is also leading the Nexus Project Cluster, a group of 30 independent water/energy/food cross-sector research initiatives who team up for increased and more impacting communication and dissemination of the Nexus.