Our team

Frank Romeo Kettey

Country Manager, Ghana

Frank joined WSUP in 2014 as a project officer and became Project Manager for Kumasi in 2016. He supports initiatives that engage local authorities, financial institutions and other private sector and community actors to improve WASH service delivery to low-income communities. Frank is passionate about initiatives that sustainably improve the lives of marginalised communities. Before joining WSUP he worked for the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, supporting agricultural and artisanal cooperatives and credit unions.

Sylvie Ramanantsoa

Country Manager, Madagascar

Sylvie is responsible for overall management, coordination and implementation of the WSUP Madagascar programme. She has been with WSUP in this role since 2009 and through it coordinates closely with institutional partners, the local authority and with the national water utility. Her previous experience is as a Project Manager with international NGOs in Antananarivo and prior to which she was responsible for the Research and Development Department of the agency for public infrastructure in Madagascar.  

Dr Philippa Ross

Managing Director

Philippa Ross is a chartered engineer and a chartered environmentalist with over 20 years’ experience in the water, sanitation, and environmental sectors. She has worked internationally in across Africa and Asia. She is an experienced business and project leader and has delivered complex multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder high impact programmes. She can grasp complex, engineering, economic, social, and environmental concepts and produce practical and innovative solutions to difficult challenges. She has worked at policy, strategy, and implementation level with clients from private, public, and international financing institutes and organisations.  In 2020 she was formally recognised as one of the top 50 women in sustainability in the UK for her work with utilities and communities in Africa. Dr Ross joined WSUP Advisory as Managing Director in February 2024.

Jane Olley

Head of Technical Services

Jane Olley is an Environmental Sanitation Specialist with 28 years of experience in the sanitation and solid waste sectors across low- and middle-income countries. She has worked with international financial institutions, UN agencies, private sector consultancies, and international non-governmental organisations. Jane brings extensive expertise in managing complex, multi-country, and multi-stakeholder development projects and programmes across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern and Northern Europe. She previously served as a Technical Manager at WSUP Advisory and currently oversees its portfolio of sanitation projects.

Antonio Madeira

Water Lead, Mozambique

António Madeira Júnior is WSUP’s Water Lead in Mozambique, bringing over 25 years of experience in the water sector. He joined WSUP in 2013 after two years working with Águas da Região de Maputo, the water utility serving Maputo. António is a specialist in the design, operation, execution, and planning of water supply systems of varying scales, with extensive knowledge spanning both urban and peri-urban contexts. His career has included working across a diverse range of sectors, including NGOs, government institutions, and private contracting. In addition to his roles with WSUP and water utilities, António has also worked with several Mozambican construction companies, further enhancing his practical experience in water infrastructure development and service delivery. His broad expertise and in-depth understanding of Mozambique’s water challenges make him a key contributor to WSUP’s efforts to improve water services for low-income communities.

Yaver Abidi

Associate, WSUP Advisory

A civil engineer by profession, Yaver has over 35 years of consulting engineering and business leadership experience in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. His expertise includes strategy, corporate governance, business planning, leadership and the planning, financing, design and management of infrastructure projects. Yaver holds a MS in management from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and is a Licensed Professional Engineer.

Philip Oyamo

Principal Consultant

Philip has been leading WSUP’s interventions in Mombasa and Malindi since 2013. He has extensive experience in institutional pro-poor capacity set-up and support, brokering complex neighbourhood and city-wide agreements intended to improve access to water and sanitation for the base of pyramid consumers. He previously worked at a number of non-profit organisations where he led teams in developing and managing WASH projects in relief and emergency response contexts.

Nerea Ajuriagogeascoa

Water and Sanitation Consultant

Nerea is an M&E expert with 7 years of experience in the WASH sector, specialised in the design and implementation of Citywide Water and Sanitation Service Delivery Assessments to inform strategic and inclusive planning. She is passionate about using digital tools to help closing the data gap in water and sanitation to increase access among vulnerable and excluded populations. Nerea has previously worked in the Evaluation, Research & Learning team of WSUP, where she led the development of WSUP´s Citywide Survey Methodology and provided technical support to M&E initiatives across WSUP programme countries. As a consultant, Nerea has worked in projects in Angola, Uganda, India, Malawi, and Nigeria among other countries. She has a background in science, R&D and Innovation in the private sector in Spain and Belgium. She holds a Bachelor in Biochemistry from the University of Navarra and a Master in Global Health from the University of Barcelona.

Louise Kennedy

Water and Sanitation Consultant

Louise is an experienced consultant working on water and sanitation projects across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. She is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with previous experience working in the design of water and wastewater infrastructure, as well as experience working in a humanitarian context for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Louise is passionate about developing the WASH sector's response to climate change and understanding the enabling environment needed to achieve universal access to water and sanitation. She is enthusiastic about developing evidence-based approaches to tackling climate change, with a focus on technical innovation for a sustainable future.

Faith Odero

Water and Sanitation Consultant

Faith is a trained water and environmental engineer with over 5 years of experience working in water and sanitation, climate change, energy, and agriculture. She has worked in projects in various countries in Africa including Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Zambia, among others, ranging from strategy development to monitoring and evaluation. Faith holds a MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from University of Oxford and a BSc Biosystems Engineering from the University of Nairobi.  

Tim Hayward

Associate, WSUP Advisory

With over 30 years’ experience in water sector projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, South East Asia and Latin America, Tim has worked with NGOs, UN agencies and private sector consultants in both development and humanitarian relief. He has worked with WSUP since 2006, having previously acted as Programme Director for WSUP programmes in Ghana, Mali and Zambia. During this time he has developed a solid understanding of strategies to address the challenges faced by service providers in meeting the water and sanitation needs of low-income urban communities.

Richard Wilson

Associate, WSUP Advisory

Richard has been Team Leader for a number of key WSUP Advisory projects focusing on WASH planning and strategy development at national level. He was previously WSUP Programme Director for Kenya and Zambia. His background is in Civil, Water and Environmental Engineering, and Institutional Development. He has 10 years of experience with African utilities, as well as broader experience in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central America.