Dr Melanie Muro is a Senior Policy Analyst with the CAP and Food team at IEEP. She is a trained Environmental Planner with a PhD in Water Management from Cranfield University in the UK. At IEEP, her work focuses on analysing and evaluating EU agricultural and environmental policies and their implementation in the European Member States. Before joining IEEP, Melanie worked at Milieu Consulting, designing and delivering research and advice for European environmental policymaking and implementation in the fields of soil, agriculture, nature, water, and marine policy. Dr Muro also worked as a researcher and educator, first with the Institute of Landscape and Environmental Planning at the Technical University Berlin in 2004 and 2005 and then with the Cranfield Water Science Institute from 2005 until 2011. During her academic career, she worked extensively on integrated and collaborative water resources planning and management issues.