PROF. ROB HOPE, DIRECTOR OF POLICY

Rob is Professor of Water Policy at Oxford University with over 20 years of research and applied experience in Africa and Asia. Rob has led research on water economics, policy and poverty through a portfolio of £50m of research grants funded by UK Research and Innovation, FCDO, USAID, GIZ/BMZ, UNICEF, the EU and others. In 2018, he led a team that won the University of Oxford’s Innovation Award. He currently leads FCDO’s REACH programme to improve water security for 10m poor people in Africa and Asia by 2024. This work includes the incubation of the FundiFix model in Kenya and establishment of the Water Services Maintenance Services Trust Fund. Rob has extensive global networks with governments and global institutes, and recently led the REACH/RWSN study to identify scale pathways to ensure safe and reliable water services for 100 million rural people by 2030.