Peter Hill

Peter is Managing Director of HARC and has 25 years’ experience in hydrology and dam safety risk assessment.

His professional career includes roles with the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) and Jacobs. Over that period he has led an extensive portfolio of hydrological studies, dambreak and consequence assessment studies, and dam safety risk analyses for most of Australia’s water supply authorities.

He has authored more than 80 technical papers and is a regular contributor to ANCOLD conferences on dam risk related topics. He is ANCOLD’s representative on the ICOLD Committee for Flood Evaluation and Dam Safety and is contributing to the revision of a number of ANCOLD Guidelines. He is a past member of Engineers Australia’s National Committee for Water Engineering and was principal author of two chapters of the national flood guideline – Australian Rainfall and Runoff.