Neil has been Chief Executive of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) for the last year. He has over a decade’s experience of successfully leading and growing non-profit organizations and innovative partnerships in Europe and North America. Previously he worked with the Renewable Energy industry to develop their social investment initiative, Renewable World. He has also headed up various organizations including INTERIGHTS and IDE-UK, and taken each through complex change processes to promote significantly enhanced institutional capacity and performance. Neil established and headed up a research institute in Washington DC which worked with the US Congress to enhance the effectiveness and impact of US policy in the Andean Region. He is presently a Non-Executive Director of the Washington Office on Latin America and he has published on stakeholder engagement, sustainable business development in emerging markets and responsible business practice, with the Cranfield University and the US Institute for Peace. He holds an MBA with distinction from Sir John Cass Business School, an MA from the University of Cambridge and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. He holds the Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

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