Speaker's Profile

Amadou Gueye

Dr Amadou Gueye is an environmentalist, water and sanitation expert and researcher passionate about knowledge generation and use for development. Since 2022, Dr GUEYE is a Senior Researcher and Programme Coordinator at IPAR and co-coordinator of the regional excellence centre Evidence-Policy-Action. He also coordinated the West African Sanitation Policy & Activators project (WASPA), which aimed to build and maintain policy leadership for safe sanitation management based on African Sanitation Policy Guidelines (ASPG) in 5 francophone West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal) through advocacy supported by research evidence.

About me

‍Dr. Amadou Gueye holds a PhD in EnvironmentalSciences. An expert in water and sanitation, he has several years' experience in project/programme development and implementation, as well as in research and academic training.

Since 2022, Dr GUEYE has been a Senior Researcher and Programme Coordinator at IPAR and co-coordinator of the regional excellence centre Evidence-Policy-Action. He also coordinated the West African SanitationPolicy & Activators project (WASPA), which aimed to build and maintain policy leadership for safe sanitation management based on African Sanitation Policy Guidelines (ASPG) in 5 francophone West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal) through advocacy supported by research evidence.

Previously, he served as Director of Research and Development at DELVIC Sanitation Initiatives (2016-2021), and as Thematic Process Manager, Coordinator of the "Sanitation Village Exhibition" and Head of Youth Water Mobilisation at the Secretariat of the 9th World WaterForum "Dakar 2022" "2021-2022".

A member of several scientific research networks, he is a research associate at IFAN's wastewater treatment laboratory and a member of the task force attached to the Cabinet of Senegal's Minister for hydraulics and Sanitation.

Amadou Gueye