Country experience: Kenya, South Sudan, Myanmar, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine, Nigeria, Bangladesh.
James is a water, sanitation, and public health engineering specialist, with over ten years of experience with programme delivery, cluster coordination, research, policy development, and capacity building, supporting countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Over the past few years, he has developed a professional focus on appropriate market-based approaches, quality assurance and accountability, and data science applications in the field of WASH. He has led or contributed to several projects in these focus areas and has co-authored technical guides on MBP for WASH and Quality Assurance and Accountability.
In 2020 he joined the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research’s Humanitarian Water Lab (York University, Toronto), as Technical Advisor to the Safe Water Optimization Tool and is the Associate Course Director for the Humanitarian Water Engineering online course.
Prior to his work in the humanitarian sector James co-founded a social enterprise, developing designs for household water collection, treatment and storage products that could be manufactured by makers in low-resource communities. He completed a Masters in Product Design Engineering, a program jointly delivered by the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Art, in 2009, combining mechanical engineering with human-centered design.