About us

The Team
We are a team of researchers at Leeds University led by Prof. Barbara Evans

Barbara Evans
Research leader
Areas of expertise: sanitation; water supply; public health; international development; political economy; international targets and monitoring faecal sludge management; economics and costing

Sally Cawood
Research fellow, Welfare effect in urban sanitation and Cost field researcher
Sally's main research interests include: inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); community-led urban development; collective action (e.g. CBOs, cooperatives and urban social movements); gender and WASH; climate change impacts and adaptations in low-income settlements

Tristano Sainati
Research fellow, Project management approach in sanitation costing and Database management
Tristano's research is focused on contracting and project management in the field of project financing, the research was cross-sectorial but focused prevalently on energy, oil & gas, and nuclear.

Andy Sleigh
Leader, Database management and visualisation
Areas of expertise: computational fluid dynamics cfd; river flow; flood modelling; environmental risk analysis

Miller Alonso Camargo Valero
Adviser and Co-investigator in waste water treatment and climate impact
Areas of expertise: wastewater treatment systems; the recovery of resources from human and animal excreta, wastewater and sewage sludge; and associated environmental impacts

Giorgio Locatelli
Adviser and Co-investigator in project management
Areas of expertise: project management; infrastructure economics & financing; complex and large projects, cost estimation, cost-benefit analysis

Fiona Zakaria
Research fellow, Costing and climate impact and field researcher
Fiona's research has been in emergency sanitation and has working experiences as water-sanitation engineer in various humanitarian agencies includes International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) and United Nations Children[s Funds (UNICEF) in Indonesia and Sudan

Ruthie Rosenberg
Cost Data contributor
Ruthie leads Citywise advisory services at Sanergy. Her areas of expertise include sanitation, public health, product and service design, sales and marketing strategy, and business model development. She has worked in sanitation provision, water service delivery, health education, and behavior change communication in Dominican Republic, Peru and Kenya, and has supported this work in Ghana and India.

Valentina Sleigh Muñoz
Database structure, programing and visualisation
Engineering Mathematics student

Anna Sevillano Evans
Database structure, management and website design
Multimedia student

Guillermo Domínguez Peláez
Literature search for cost data in spanish speaking countries
Civil Engineering student