Dr. Albert Wright

Dr. Albert M. Wright is Chairman of the Africa Water Task Force, member of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership, and consults several developing countries n urban sanitation policy. He has worked for over eleven years with the World Bank, most recently as senior sanitary engineer, and was a member of the Technology Advisory Group at the World Bank that conducted a two-year study on low-cost technologies for excreta disposal. Dr. Wright has served for twenty years on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Environmental Health. In that capacity, he served on various Expert Committees of the WHO, including the Expert Committees on Filariasis and Solid Waste Disposal. He also served as the Joint Rapporteur in 1982 for the Final Task Group on the WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. During his time at the WHO he taught at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at Kumasi, Ghana where he served as Head of Civil Engineering and set up the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering. In addition, Dr. Wright was Chairman of the International Management Board of the International Reference Centre (IRC) for Community Water Supply at Rijkwik, the Netherlands. Dr. Wright comes from Ghana and received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkely.