Andrea L. Hayden, Vice President of Risk Management for WATER STANDARD, is a water resource specialist with a multi-disciplinary professional and academic background in the financial, regulatory/legal, environmental, and engineering components of the industry.

Her expertise includes developing valuation and risk analysis models; performing economic valuations of water rights; estimating water supply costs; writing, presenting, and managing environmental permits; and wetland/watershed resource assessment. Additionally, she has co-authored articles assessing the financial and environmental issues related to water management and is a speaker at industry seminars.

Ms. Hayden earned her undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and a Master of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering and Urban/Environmental Policy from Tufts University. Additionally, she has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts where she specialized in international finance/banking and environmental/resource policy.

Ms. Hayden spent five years as an environmental scientist with Camp Dresser & McKee and then Earth Tech, both of which are large consulting firms providing water engineering and environmental services. While finishing her M.S., she served as a research assistant at Tufts – where she developed supply and demand curves for water allocation models funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 1999, Ms. Hayden joined Azurix, an Enron affiliate that owned, operated, and managed water and wastewater assets.

She left Azurix in 2001 to become vice president of Layne Water Development & Storage, a subsidiary of the global resource exploration and production firm Layne Christensen Co. While there, she focused on water resource risk management and the financial evaluation related to potential acquisitions. In 2003, Ms. Hayden moved to WestWater Research as senior associate, concentrating on water marketing and water asset valuation.

Prior to joining WATER STANDARD, Ms. Hayden was an independent consultant specializing in the valuation and acquisition of water assets with primary focus on the economic and risk profile of the transactions.