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Gary White
Co-Founder, Board Chairman, and CEO of WaterEquity Inc.
Gary White is an observer, an innovator, and a passionate problem-solver. He has created solutions that have empowered millions of people in need with access to safe water and sanitation. Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity Inc, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering people in developing nations to gain access to […]
Gary White is an observer, an innovator, and a passionate problem-solver. He has created solutions that have empowered millions of people in need with access to safe water and sanitation.
Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity Inc, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering people in developing nations to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit solution, creating new financing options for poor populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed WaterEquity, an impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis with an exclusive focus on mobilizing private investments in water and sanitation throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Bringing more than 30 years of experience to work on solving the global water and sanitation crisis, Gary is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as the IKEA Foundation, Inditex, Reckitt, AB InBev, Amazon Web Services, the Water Resilience Coalition, and Bank of America on responses to the global water crisis. He is also a founding board member of the Millennium Water Alliance and Water Advocates.
Alongside co-founder Matt Damon, Gary has been recognized through TIME magazine’s list of the worlds 100 most influential people and the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Gary has also been named to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water and selected as Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and a Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur.
Gary’s educational credentials include three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University of Science & Technology.
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Matt Damon
Co-Founder
Academy Award winner Matt Damon is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and humanitarian, who has garnered international acclaim for his work both on- and off-screen. Inspired during international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, Matt has long been devoted to environmental and social issues. Learning about the immense challenges of accessing […]
Academy Award winner Matt Damon is an actor, screenwriter, producer, and humanitarian, who has garnered international acclaim for his work both on- and off-screen.
Inspired during international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, Matt has long been devoted to environmental and social issues. Learning about the immense challenges of accessing safe water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Matt was inspired to create the H20 Africa Foundation. In 2009, he teamed up with Gary White to merge their organizations and launch Water.org, and in 2017, to create WaterEquity.
For his work with Water.org, Matt and WaterEquity co-founder Gary White were recognized among TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world. He also received the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum and the Environmental Media Award from The Environmental Media Association. Matt has become one of the world’s experts on water and sanitation issues through a decade of participation in his organizations’ work, including site visits to multiple countries, strategy development, advocacy, and engagement with institutions such as the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
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