Country Experience: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), South Sudan, Tajikistan, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam.
St John is a freelance consultant specialising in water resources management, water supply and sanitation. He has more than 20 years professional engineering experience, including over 15 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. His experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.
St John has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, concentrating on WASH and water governance. He has extensively researched the intersection between the role of citizen science and Government agencies in natural resource management. He was a member of the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers Appropriate Development Panel and has worked as a senior adviser to Presidential Delivery Teams, national governments, private sector companies and humanitarian agencies, from the United Nations and INGO sectors.
St John also has a long history of working in both rural and urban contexts, including major engineering projects, flood alleviation, climate resilience and supporting water utility and institutional reforms. In the course of his career, St John worked on the Heathrow Terminal 5 Twin Rivers Diversion, which won a CEEQUAL Excellent Achievement Award.
St John received a PhD from Cranfield University for his thesis on Water Resource Management in Fragile and Conflict Affected States. In addition to his PhD, St John holds a BEng (Hons) Degree in Civil and Water Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire and a MSc Water Management from Cranfield University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager.