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Malcolm Stewart Morris is Chairman of Stewart Title Company. He served as Chairman of the Deacons at First Baptist Church of Houston; He was a member of the Council on National Policy and Real Estate Roundtable’s President’s Council. He is the past Chairman and current Executive Vice President of Living Water International. Mr. Morris is also heavily involved in working with Africa for Schools, hospitals, orphanages, churches, and communities.
Peter Lochery is an environmental engineer with over 30 years of experience in the water sector. He has worked in the private sector, with the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program, and latterly with CARE. Since joining CARE in 1995, he has been responsible for providing leadership to CARE’s relief and development programming in water and sanitation and water resources.
Andy Barnes has worked for Food for the Hungry for nine years. He spent seven years as the Country Director in Ethiopia, and two years in Washington DC as the Director of Food Security. In addition, for nine years, Andy taught forestry and biology at the university level in Ethiopia and Canada.
Edward D. (Ned) Breslin joined Water For People as its Director of International Programs in January 2006, and was appointed Acting CEO in late 2008. The board hired him as Chief Executive Officer on May 13, 2009. Mr Breslin was first introduced to the challenges of water supply when living in the Chalbi Desert of northern Kenya in 1987, linked to a Lutheran World Relief program through St. Lawrence University. He subsequently worked for a range of local and international water and sanitation sector NGOs in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, including positions at the Mvula Trust and as Country Representative for WaterAid in Mozambique, before joining Water For People.
Ron Clemmer currently serves as the Senior Technical Advisor for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for World Vision U.S., working in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Ron has worked in environmental engineering with a WASH focus for over 20 years, and his projects have served areas ranging from one household to over 1,000,000 people.
Joe Harbison joined Lifewater International in September 2010 after serving most of his professional life in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In his thirty years serving and leading in the field of relief and development, he learned that one of the best ways to assist rural communities in their development goals is through partnerships to improve water and sanitation resources.
Dr. Michael J. Mantel is President & CEO of Living Water International, a global implementer of water solutions in 24 developing countries. Prior to joining Living Water International in 2008, Mike led World Vision’s regional, area and metro teams in the central United States for 17 years. Mike is a graduate of Calvin College with a BA in Business Economics and holds a Certification in Executive Training in Social Innovations and Global Change Management from Case Western.
Rich Thorsten is the Director of International Programs for Water.org. Mr. Thorsten oversees the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Water.org’s water and sanitation programs. He also works closely with the Development and Communications teams on donor and special public relations projects.
Dr. Dennis B. Warner is a Senior Technical Advisor for water supply, sanitation and water resources development with Catholic Relief Services. He has over forty years experience in international development, working on problems of water supply, sanitation, environmental health and emergency relief assistance. As a member of the CRS Program Quality Support Department since 2004, Dr Warner has headed up the development of regional water and sanitation strategies; the strengthening of technical staff resources at the headquarters, regional and country levels; the participation of CRS in coalitions and partnerships with other development organizations; the involvement of CRS in water-related international emergencies and disasters; and the promotion of a water program area within CRS. Raised in the Chicago area, he studied history and engineering at the University of Illinois and Stanford University, and received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the latter. Dr. Warner has lived in Tanzania, Uganda, Switzerland and France and has held positions with the Peace Corps, University of Dar es Salaam, Duke University, World Health Organization, several engineering consulting firms, World Bank and USAID. Dr. Warner is a Member of Pax Christi, the international Catholic peace movement, and in 2000 served as representative of Pax Christi International to the United Nations in Geneva. Dr. Warner is currently a board member of Pax Christi Metro DC, Falls Church Historical Commission and the Holy Land Christians Society.
Dr. David Winder became CEO of WaterAid America in January 2010. Dr. Winder’s career has spanned the non-profit, foundation and academic spheres. He started his career in international development as a United Nations volunteer in Chile and then managed graduate programs, taught courses in public administration, social development planning and rural development policy and planning, and conducted research at the University of Manchester’s Institute for Development Policy and Management in England. For over a decade he served the Ford Foundation as Regional Representative for Mexico and Central America and as Regional Representative for Southeast Asia focusing on new programs in human rights and social justice, maternal and child health, and natural resource management.