Hi, I’m Andy

I work to improve the water, sanitation and hygiene situation in the world.

I currently work for UNICEF where I lead a partnership with the global water and housing business LIXIL and support the roll out of UNICEF’s Sanitation Game Plan to over 150 countries.

Previously I consulted for Unilever’s TRANSFORM on sanitation and supported the Hygiene & Behaviour Change Coalition with the UK government. As deputy CEO at Water and Sanitation for Urban Populations, I led multi-million pound urban WASH programmes.

Previously I co-founded the sanitation social enterprise Clean Team in collaboration with Unilever and led a safe drinking water programme that reached 4.9 million people in East Africa.

This site is my digital CV, with writing on personal growth and productivity, and my podcast episodes on social enterprise here.

Quick Bio

  • I live in Norwich in the UK with my wife and 3 children.
  • I’ve worked for nearly 20 years in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector, of which 2 years was spent in India and 5 years in Kenya.
  • I graduated with a Masters in Civil Engineering from University of Exeter (’94-’98) and a Masters in Community Water Supply and Sanitation from Cranfield University (’02-’03).
  • From 2000-2003 I worked in the very new online media industry in London as an agency digital marketing project manager.
  • I have published over 100 episodes on The Finding Impact Podcast about social enterprises creating systemic social change.
  • I helped my father run a luxury mobile toilet business for several years before co-founding an innovative household toilet business in Ghana called Clean Team (which makes me a 2nd generation toilet entrepreneur!)

From my blog