François Brikké, a French national, has recently joined UNICEF Indonesia as Chief Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. From 2004-2008, Mr. Brikké was based in Lima, Peru, as Regional Team Leader of the Water and Sanitation Program – Latin America and the Caribbean (WSP-LAC), administered by the World Bank.

Mr. Brikké, is both a socio-economist and a sanitary engineer and graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Nancy (France) and the Institut des Sciences de l‘Ingénieur of Montpellier (France). He has had more than 20 years of experience working with or in developing countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. His experience in the water and sanitation sector started in 1992 at the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, where he worked as a Programme Officer in charge of the development of policies and guidelines on sustainable provision of services. He then created his own consultancy firm in 1999, “Dialogue and Development”, based in France, where he specialized in sector policy formulation, reforms, decentralization, SWAPs development, and monitoring.

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