Frank Rijsberman
Frank Rijsberman joins the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program as director of its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene initiative on 11 October 2010.
Mr. Rijsberman has been responsible for public health grant making at Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, which he joined in June 2007. From 2000-2007 he served as director general of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a leading research organization on water, food, and the environment.
Since 2006, the Gates foundation has committed US$ 200 million to support sustainable approaches to clean water and sanitation services in developing countries. Its funding now focuses primarily on sanitation.
Frank Rijsberman was a member of the Task Force on Water and Sanitation for the UN Millennium Development Goals Project, and one of the key organizers of the second World Water Forum. He served as part-time professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute of Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands.
Originally from The Netherlands, Rijsberman received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Delft University of Technology, and earned a multi-disciplinary Ph.D. in water resources planning and management and civil engineering from Colorado State University. He has worked in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and speaks four languages including his native Dutch.
Source: Gates Foundation, 17 Sep 2010
Dear Frank
Subject: Sanitation
I applaud what you are trying to do. I have been working on the same problem with success for small single families. The big problem is when you include intellectual ventures in the big picture you scare the crap out of me. Would like to work on this I don’t have all the answers just some of them.
Dear Frank,
During 2004-2009 I have done many studies (paper in Delft with Prof. Dr. B.J. Boersma) on pumpeffiv=ciency in the vacuumtechnology (Vacutug) and saniation for especially unplanned urban areas in biodigestion, microenterprises, city-logistics of cities of underdeveloped countries.
Made an introduction-pitch for the URU (codename invention on the NCDO-site under my name ) on the Sanitation Seminar of WaterNed i Amsterdam on 15th september 2008,
I am interested in an anterpeneurial in developing the URU (see site) role in sustainable development of saniational circumstances of the poorest even in westernworld cultures
I am interested in giving presentations/discussions/pitches and seminars on this subject as I hope to realise my dream in realiszing and implemeting the URU with fiancial support from any organisation.
I hope you will contact me personally on this subject and discuss our possibilities, matches to where it could bring us ………,
Robert G. Schuthof
De Wilster 3
8702CH Bolsward
The Netherlands
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