Speakers

DAVID KAMAU KURIA

David Kuria is the Chief Executive Officer of Ecotact Limited and the Regional Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Africa 2009. He is the Urban Adviser, Civil Society Urban Development Programme, of the Embassy of Sweden… More »

Samuel Musembi Musyoki

Samuel Musembi Musyoki is currently the Strategic Director of Programs Plan International Kenya. He has a background in Anthropology and Development Studies (Politics of Alternative Development Strategies). Musyoki has over 18 years work experience as trainer… More »

Prof. Meera Mehta

Meera Mehta is currently a Professor Emeritus at CEPT University and an international consultant with 30 years of experience in water, urban development and infrastructure finance. She joined CEPT in 1979 and was the Director… More »

Prof. Dinesh Mehta

Prof. Dinesh Mehta is a Professor Emeritus at CEPT University, Ahmedabad where he teaches urban management, housing and development planning. He has been associated with CEPT since 1977, when he joined CEPT as Assistant Professor.… More »

Mingma Gyalzen Sherpa

Mr. Sherpa has been working in the water and sanitation sector for more than nine years especially implementing community based water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs in peri-urban/urban communities in Nepal. He has also played… More »

Thorsten Kiefer

Thorsten is a lawyer by training, with an LL.M. in international law from the University of Amsterdam. Before starting WASH United in 2009, Thorsten worked, inter alia, at COHRE’s Right to Water Programme and the… More »

Karin Hulshof

Ms. Hulshof, as UNICEF Representative to India, is responsible for the overall coordination, the development, formulation and management of the UNICEF Country Programme of Co-operation. She leads the policy dialogue and advocacy with the government and… More »

Nirat Bhatnagar

Nirat is a management graduate from IIM, Bangalore, and prior to that a graduate from IIT Kharagpur. Before joining Quicksand as a Principal, Nirat worked in senior management roles at a venture capital funded startup and headed… More »

Carolyne Esther Nabalema

Carolyne Esther Nabalema is a Public Health Specialist with over 8 years experience in implementing and managing WASH programs. She currently works with Plan International Uganda, as a Water and Sanitation specialist. Among others, her… More »

Lillian Okwirry

Lillian Okwirry has over 26 years experience within the water and sanitation sector and is currently the Chief of WASH with UNICEF, Chad office. As one of the first, female, water engineers in the East… More »

Cordell Jacks

Cordell is the WASH Programs Director for International Development Enterprises (IDE), and is based in Cambodia. Over the past 3 years he has managed Sanitation Marketing programs for IDE, as well as initiating programs in East Timor, Laos, and upcoming… More »

Louis C. Boorstin

Louis Boorstin is Deputy Director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This initiative has committed over $250 million to support effective, sustainable and scalable WASH solutions, primarily in… More »

Engr. Ebele Okeke

Engr. Ebele Ofunneamaka Okeke is the first female Head of the Civil Service of the Federation of Nigeria; the first female engineer Federal Permanent Secretary, and the first female civil engineer in Nigeria. She holds… More »

Dr. Everold Hosein

Dr. Everold Hosein, Senior Communication Advisor-Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO), is an international communication specialist (born in Trinidad and Tobago) with over 35 years of experience in strategic communication, integrated marketing communication, advocacy and public… More »

Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani is Founder-Chairperson of ARGHYAM, a foundation she has personally endowed to fund initiatives in ‘safe, sustainable water for all’. She is also Founder-Chairperson of Pratham Books, which seeks to democratize the joy of… More »

Dr. Mona Khanna

Dr. Mona Khanna is a triple board-certified physician and Emmy award-winning medical journalist who serves as the Medical Contributor to Fox Chicago News and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. She is… More »

Robert Aunger

Robert Aunger has an undergraduate degree in History, a Master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in biological anthropology from UCLA, with a thesis on the cultural evolution… More »

Dr. Sirajul Islam

Dr Md Sirajul Islam is an International Scientist with the designation of Environmental Microbiologist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh where he heads the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory. He has… More »

Ifeoma Charles-Monwuba

Ifeoma Charles-Monwuba is Deputy Country Director and Head of Programmes at ActionAid Nigeria. She was the Head of Governance at WaterAid Nigeria for four years. She is a behaviour change practitioner who has worked for… More »

Siddhartha Swarup

Siddhartha Swarup is the Deputy Country Director at the BBC World Service Trust. He is a health communication, advertising and marketing expert with over 12 years of experience specializing in program management, strategic planning, creative… More »

Radharani Mitra

Radharani Mitra, National Creative Director and Executive Producer joined theBBCWorld Service Trust in 2007 with several years of advertising experience. She has masterminded many national public service campaigns for NACO on condoms, STIs and blood… More »