Timmo Gaasbeek works as Senior Policy Officer Food Security at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His focus is on food security, IWRM, conflict management and climate change & variability. His cum laude PhD research looked at everyday inter-ethnic interaction in a multi-ethnic part of Sri Lanka's war zone, centered around an irrigation system. He is currently working on a study on Sahel rainfall patterns, which is intended to turn into a second PhD.