Topic leader: Piers Cross in collaboration with UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking- Water (UN-Water GLAAS)

Piers Cross is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 6: Building coherence in global-regional -national WASH monitoring.  Piers Cross is a leading international spokesperson and strategist in water supply and sanitation. He has worked for the World Bank for over 20 years. His appointments include: Global Program Manager of the Water and Sanitation Program and Regional Team Leader for Africa, as well as Asia. Currently, Piers advises several multilateral agencies, governments and NGOs on water and sanitation issues. He is a senior advisor for the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and for the International Steering Committee of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Piers was recently inducted into the
World Toilet Organization’s Hall of Fame for his dedicated services to global sanitation. Piers has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.