DR DUNCAN MCNICHOLL, CEO

Duncan is a civil engineer with over 10 years of WASH experience in Africa, Asia, and South America where he has directed governance programs, managed professional rural water maintenance services and led academic research. Prior to co-founding the Uptime initiative, he was the General Manager of Whave in Uganda from 2017-2018 where he directly oversaw development and growth of a rural handpump maintenance service for over 150,000 water users. Dr McNicholl holds a PhD in Engineering from the Cambridge University Centre for Sustainable Development where he studied how stakeholder networks influence institutional development for managing rural water supply.