Dr. Syed is part of Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team supporting the Asia region on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). He is a seasoned professional with more than 13 years of experience in public, private, humanitarian, and development sectors. He is a registered medical doctor with a master’s degree in Public Health from Australia.

Brian is a Water and Sanitation Advisor in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team. He has 30 years of professional engineering and management experience, which includes 25 years of working exclusively in low-income countries and fragile states managing water and sanitation programs and teams responding to protracted humanitarian crises as well as long-term development.

Michelle is originally from Manchester and works in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team specializing in public health during emergencies. In the last few years, she has worked in Iraq, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Yemen, helping families to overcome poverty due to conflicts or natural disasters.

Michelle is currently deployed in a remote village in northeast Nigeria which has been affected by the armed conflict with Boko Haram.

Bonapart Villalino Masangcay is a Bon is a Geodetic Engineer with strong technical background in Surveying, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, GIS Analysis and Data analytics. To name a few, his experiences as a Geodetic Engineer include being part of the survey team that surveyed the Galoc Oil Field in the seas of Palawan, PTT Oil Field in Thailand, vessel positioning in the seas of Vietnam, and data analysis in Singapore.

Ramon's expertise areas are civil and environmental engineering, urban infrastructure development, climate change management, and land and water resource management. He has over three decades of work experience.

He currently serves as Program Manager for the ADB-managed Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA trust fund) and as urban development and climate resilience expert for the multi-donor Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund, also managed by ADB.

Lachlan is a Research Fellow and Project Manager (Integrated Water Management and WASH) at the International WaterCentre in Griffith University, Australia. He has extensive experience in integrated water strategic planning and water security. He has recently completed several high-level water assessments, most notably Key Dimension 1 of the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Water Development Outlook 2020 which addresses access to water, sanitation, health impacts, and affordability within countries across Asia and the Pacific.

Kate is the Sanitation and Waste Team Leader within the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) team at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. In this role, Kate is responsible for translating evidence to policy and practice through WHO guidelines and health sector collaborations where sanitation is a critical component of risk and disease control (such as antimicrobial resistance and neglected tropical diseases).

Kate is also coordinating WHO’s activities on environmental surveillance for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).