Christophe Brachet graduated in 1988 from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, and has over two decades of experience in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), hydrology, large water infrastructures, climate change adaptation and flood risk management.

Brachet is currently the Deputy General Manager of the International Office for Water (OIEau) in Paris. He joined IOWater in 2010 after serving with the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs as advisor to the Congo River basin organization (CICOS) in Kinshasa from 2008 to 2010, and to the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) in Niamey from 2003 to 2008.  He was previously head of the water and environment department at the French engineering firm ISL Ingénierie.