Timothy Moss holds a DPhil in urban history from Oxford University. He is head of the department "Regional institutional change" at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) in Erkner, near Berlin, where he has coordinated and conducted a number of national and international research projects on institutional dimensions to environmental change in urban and regional contexts. His special research interests are in the areas of infrastructure management, river basin management and the sustainable development of cities and regions in Europe.