Tim Ramirez

Tim was first appointed by Governor Brown in January 2012 to serve as a member of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, and most recently reappointed by Governor Newsom in 2020. Since 2005, Tim has worked for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission as the manager of the Natural Resources and Lands Management Division. Previously, Tim spent six years working as the assistant secretary for water policy and science at the California Resources Agency and as the senior policy advisor and deputy director for ecosystem restoration at the California Bay-Delta Authority. Tim’s responsibilities included serving as the state coordinator for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, and he focused on river systems and the intersection of water supply, ecosystem restoration, water quality, flood protection, and agricultural issues. Tim earned an MS in civil and environmental engineering and an MA in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.