Mr. Finn has over 30 years of experience in engineering practice. His broad range of skills have been built through 10 years as an engineer and project manager in multi-disciplinary teams, 2 years as leader of a relief and development program in Cambodia, and 18 years as leader of an engineering consulting firm in Ithaca, New York. He served as a long time adviser to the AguaClara Program.

Ms. Sharif was an undergraduate intern with the AguaClara program at Cornell University. She continued to be involved as part of her Master of Engineering project and, upon graduating, worked to maintain the Automated Design Tool that produces 3D CAD drawings of the water treatment systems. She worked to pilot the first four AguaClara systems ever implemented in India.

Dr. Hurwitz has over 30 years of experience in new product development for the filtration and separations industry including management of development teams across multiple continents. He has developed separations products for a wide variety of applications including drinking water, industrial waste remediation, food and beverage processes, pharmaceuticals, and petrochemicals. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, applying his expertise through consulting and teaching.

Dr. Weber-Shirk worked with Salvadoran refugees in Honduras in the early eighties, motivating him to develop solutions to the inaccessibility of clean drinking water on tap in underdeveloped parts of the world. He founded AguaClara Cornell in 2005, which consists of 70 undergraduate and graduate students. He continues to direct the Cornell program, including laboratory research, classroom instruction, and annual student project tours to Honduras.

Mr. Tipping is a senior international water, environment and sustainable development specialist with over 30 years of experience across multiple industries and sectors. This includes 20 years of practice in the design and construction of domestic, commercial, industrial and municipal water and wastewater systems, followed by United Nations appointments as a Human Settlements Specialist and Advisor. He has worked on a range of complex water issues, from the local level to river basin systems, and is currently Senior Executive Officer / Senior Projects Manager for the Australian Government.

Ms. Taetzsch has over 30 years of professional experience in organizational leadership, financial management, and accounting. She is currently College Dean of Operations and Enrollment Management at Tompkins Cortland Community College. She provides leadership and vision for the operational and enrollment management functions of the College and related organizations. She is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Government Financial Manager, and member of American Institute of Public Accountants (AICPA). She also serves on the Board of the Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY.

Mr. Foote is a visiting lecturer at Cornell University teaching infrastructure finance and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for State and Local Government. He has twelve years of experience as a public finance investment banker both in the United States and Asia. Following his career in investment banking, John co-founded a transportation engineering company, specializing in intelligent transportation systems and services such as electronic toll collection. John holds a Master of Public Administration (1976) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in engineering (1974) from Cornell University.

Ms. Serna graduated from Cornell University with a BS in 2006 and a ME in 2007. She has over ten years of experience in the planning and design of various civil engineering projects. She started her career internationally working on sustainable water treatment plants and continued on to work in Houston as a Municipal Utility District Engineer. She is now a Senior Engineer with Carollo Engineers and works on a wide variety of water and wastewater projects for various cities in and around the Houston area. Her passions lie in projects geared towards sustainability, reuse, potable water and wastewater.

Mr. Klug has over 30 years experience providing business and operations guidance for profit and non-profit companies, working across 4 continents. He has helped over 30 technology, financial services, utilities and charitable organizations scale their businesses to better serve their customer bases. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has served as an advisor to AguaClara for over 5 years.

Ms. St. Anne is a creative facilitator, with development and communication skills honed at Cornell University. Her attention to big-picture thinking, problem defining, storytelling, histories and myth, enables effective and sustainable interaction and innovation. Her focus is creative collaboration, and watering things to make them grow.

A 2011 graduate of the Cornell AguaClara program, Mr. Hart has worked on AguaClara projects and program development as an engineer for partner organization Agua Para el Pueblo in Honduras and as design lead at Cornell. Since 2016 he has continued to work in potable water as a Staff Professional at Carollo Engineers in Walnut Creek, California.

Mr. Adelman was a part of the AguaClara Cornell team as an M.S. student from 2010-2012, where he focused on the development of the Stacked Rapid Sand Filter and researched topics ranging from particle capture by plate settlers to the effectiveness of the economic and governance model of AguaClara plants. He is currently a professional environmental engineer with Stantec MWH in Pasadena, CA, where he works on both conventional and advanced treatment process engineering for a variety of water, wastewater, water reuse, site remediation, and waste management projects.

Mr. Bawa is an experienced executive, investor, consultant, and mentor who thrives on strategic and challenging opportunities to improve business results and create value. He is experienced in transforming startups through Fortune 500 organizations to consistently develop and deliver products and services focused on customers’ needs while exceeding an organization’s revenue, cost and profit goals. He has deep business and technical expertise combined with strong team-building and management skills to promote positive change.

Ms. Nuñes is a civil engineer and has been working in WASH for 5 years with partner organization Agua Para el Pueblo. One of her majors roles has been the design and the supervision of the construction of the AguaClara plants in Honduras. She sees her role as a great opportunity to serve and help people of her country and to improve their quality of life.

Leanne is the representative to the United Nations for the International Association for Public Participation and principal liaison with the UN Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific (IAP2 is an international not for profit organisation that aims to advance the practice of community and stakeholder engagement through education, advocacy and building partnerships) Leanne has been an IAP2 Board Director for 7 years. She has more than 30 years experience working in state and local governments in Australia in areas of social justice, community development, communications and stakeholder engagement.

Professor Hobbs is a crop scientist and agronomist with 30 years of experience with IRRI and CIMMYT, two CG centers working mainly on rice and wheat systems and conservation agriculture in South Asia. He is presently an adjunct Professor in CSS and also an International Professor teaching various courses on international agriculture systems, agroforestry and GMO`s. In August 2010 he became the new Associate Director for IP-CALS for academic and professional studies.

Mr. Guzman has been with the AguaClara Cornell program since 2015, and received his BS and ME from Cornell in 2017. Starting in August 2018, he will be working for Agua Para el Pueblo in Honduras designing and implementing AguaClara technologies. His professional aspirations include propagating innovative water and wastewater technologies in the global south.

Ms. Sandhu began her association with AguaClara Cornell as a member of the design team while pursuing Master of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University. After graduating in 2014, she joined AguaClara LLC as a project engineer to lend technical support for implementation of the pilot systems in India. This enriching experience spurred her interest in understanding the interdisciplinary facets of water management. She is currently a Masters candidate in Sustainability Management (Water) at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on designing provincial bulk water pricing frameworks to promote efficient and sustainable water management.

Ms. Klug was a part of the AguaClara team as an undergraduate student from 2011-2014, where she focused on translating insight from the AguaClara lab and feedback from the field into improvements to AguaClara water treatment plant designs. She is currently working as an environmental engineer in California, where she focuses on a variety of water supply, treatment, and management projects.