John is Director of IRCs Global Programme and a member of the senior management team. IRC's Global Programme generates and uses evidence - working through partnerships - to drive change at scale in the systems that ultimately deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services at country and local levels.
John is a Briton and European, working from Lodz in Poland where he lives with his family. He has worked for IRC since 2005 and between 2016 and 2019 he was the country director in Ethiopia. He currently represents IRC in the Sanitation and Water for All led Heads of State Initiatives, the executive committee of the Agenda for Change, the Influence team for the One For Alliance, UN-water and the board of the Millennium Water Alliance.
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