2013 PSLO Water & Sanitation Mission Profile Booklet - Greater ...

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Ella Lazarte, Water & Sanitation Specialist , Water & Sanitation Programs, World Bank
Ms. Ella Lazarte is a Water and Sanitation Specialist in the Water and Sanitation
Program (WSP), a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to
support poor people in obtaining affordable, safe, and sustainable access to water
and sanitation services. She has worked in various capacities from program
management, monitoring, and technical assistance to client governments related
to private sector participation, small towns and peri-urban water supply and
institutional reform. More recently, she lived and worked in Mozambique,
providing advisory and technical assistance to the government, particularly in
expanding the options for management of water supply services through private
sector involvement.
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Lazarte worked in different settings, from the corporate boardrooms
of Charles Schwab, where she worked on global expansion strategy and implementation
of the financial services firm, to the favelas of Brazil, where she worked as a Fulbright Fellow and
consultant, focusing on microfinance and community economic development. She holds a Master’s
in Urban Planning from MIT, and a BA, with Honors, in Political Economy from University of
California, Berkeley.
William “Bill” Kingdom, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Bill Kingdom started his career as an engineer working on water supply and irrigation
projects in the Middle East and South East Asia before taking a Masters in
Economics and moving to the Water Research Centre (WRc), the UK’s central
research organization for the water industry. At WRc he managed programs in
the UK and North America on sector regulation, private sector participation, and
performance benchmarking. He joined the Bank in 1999 where he established
IBNET, the world’s largest utility performance database, and lead research projects
on public utility reform, sector consolidation, regulation and town water
supplies. He moved to East Asia and Pacific region working on Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines
and China developing a range of output and performance based initiatives. He now works in
South Asia supporting WSS teams across the region. Bill is a graduate of Cambridge University
and York University in the UK and is a chartered civil engineer.
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