Gary White
CEO and Board Chair, WaterConnect
Gary White is an observer, an innovator, and a passionate problem-solver. He has created solutions that have empowered millions of people in need with access to safe water and sanitation.
Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org, WaterEquity, and WaterConnect, three nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering people in developing nations to gain access to safe water and sanitation.
Bringing more than 30 years of experience to work on solving the global water and sanitation crisis, Gary is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as the IKEA Foundation, Inditex, Reckitt, AB InBev, Amazon Web Services, the Water Resilience Coalition, and Bank of America on responses to the global water crisis. He is also a founding board member of the Millennium Water Alliance and Water Advocates.
Alongside co-founder Matt Damon, Gary has been recognized through TIME magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Gary has also been named to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water and selected as Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and a Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur.
Gary’s educational credentials include three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University of Science & Technology.
