Governance

WSUP, Water & Sanitation for Urban Populations, is deeply committed to promoting good governance across all its subsidiaries and associated organisations, each of which has its own Board and audited accounts.  These Boards provide oversight and guidance to our Executive Leadership teams, ensuring we embrace inclusive decision-making processes, foster open communication, and adhere to financial, legal and regulatory standards.

Our main Board contains individual representatives of our organisational Members, as well as several independent directors. WSUP Advisory has its own Board of Directors, and WSUP Charity has a Board of Trustees. 

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Sam Drabble

Director of Evaluation and Research

Sam Drabble

Director of Evaluation and Research

Sam Drabble is an urban WASH professional with over 10 years’ experience in urban WASH research, programme evaluation and peer-to-peer learning. He holds organisation-wide responsibility for the Evaluation, Research and Learning function at WSUP. While at WSUP Sam has supported the rollout of research programmes across WSUP's seven programme countries, authored or edited over 60 WSUP technical publications, and led research studies for World Bank, WHO,  ESAWAS and UN Habitat among others. Prior to joining WSUP, Sam worked as Analyst in the Evaluation and Performance Management team at RAND Europe. This built on experience with the learning and development team at the UK Institute for Government.

Dr Philippa Ross

Managing Director

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.