Wayne Jenkinson, Ph.D

Executive Director, National Hydrological Service at Environment & Climate Change Canada

Dr. Wayne Jenkinson is the Executive Director of the National Hydrological Service (NHS) within Environment and Climate Change Canada. The NHS includes 340 staff and is the federal administrator of the national hydrometric monitoring network and is responsible for operating approximately 2200 water monitoring stations on rivers and lakes across Canada. The NHS also lends its water resources engineering and scientific expertise to domestic and international water management boards, to transboundary studies and committees, the World Meteorological Organization, and to other water resources issues of national importance.

Before joining the NHS in 2021, Dr. Jenkinson spent 5 years as the Senior Engineering Advisor at the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission (IJC) directing studies and board activities relating to water level management, water quality and numerical modelling activities in transboundary regions.

Prior to his time at the IJC, he was the Senior Research Engineer and Water Resources Lead for the Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering (OCRE) portfolio at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. His work and research focused on numerical modelling and model development in the fields of hydrology, hydrodynamics and water quality, including the development of operational flow forecasting systems for provinces and hydropower utilities across Canada.

Dr. Jenkinson is the Hydrological Advisor to Canada’s permanent representative to the WMO, is past president of the Canadian Society of Hydrological Sciences and has received his master’s degree from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo.