Eddy Perez is the Technical Director for WASH and Health at Global Communities, where he oversees the global portfolio of Water, Sanitation, Water Resources and Health projects. Prior to coming to Global Communities, Perez was the Chief of Party for a USAID-funded Sustainable WASH Systems Leaning Partnership and Professor of Practice in Global WASH at the Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the School of Public Health at Emory University. From 2004 through 2014, he was the Lead Sanitation Specialist for the World Bank and global team leader for the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) global program on learning, technical assistance and capacity building for scaling up rural sanitation and a parallel program on scaling up handwashing behavior change. These programs used evidence-based knowledge of what worked and what did not work to influence policies and practices of governments and development partners in Africa, Latin American and the Caribbean, South Asia, and East Asia. Eddy also worked for 13 years as the Technical Director for the USAID-funded WASH Project and the Environmental Health Project (EHP) that provided short-term technical assistance and analytical work to USAID in Washington, D.C. as well as USAID Missions in developing countries. Earlier in his career, Eddy was the Honduras Country Director for the Cooperative Housing Foundation (now Global Communities).
Perez has worked with and advised various global development partners including UNICEF, WaterAid, Plan International, WHO, USAID, DFID, DGIS, IRC, the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He has been the keynote speaker at multiple global and regional conferences such as the Stockholm World Water Week, and the Africa Ministerial Conference on Sanitation (AFRICASAN). Eddy is the author or co-author of multiple knowledge products including guidelines, manuals, policy and research briefs, and articles in leading practitioner journals such as WaterLines. He was the Chair of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) expert working group on sanitation for the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals and former member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF). Eddy has a BS in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Engineering and Public Policy (with a concentration in Science and Technology in International Development) from Washington University.