Iana Aranda is a Manager of Technical Programming and Development at ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing and skill development across all engineering disciplines.  Her primary focus at ASME is on the development of new technical content in emerging technology areas and global markets. Additionally, she serves as a Content Strategist for Engineering for Change, LLC (E4C) a global alliance that facilitates the development of engineering solutions to improve quality of life in under-served communities worldwide. Iana is also the President of the Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) NY Professional Chapter and Public Health Lead for a Potable Water Supply project in western Kenya.

Professor Kartik Chandran is Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.  The research of Prof. Chandran focuses on biological nitrogen removal and engineered resource recovery from waste streams with applications to both developing and developed economies.  Prof. Chandran is the faculty advisor for the EWB-Ghana program at Columbia.  He received the WERF Paul L. Busch Award in 2010 and serves on the WEF Board of Trustees.

Chien-Li Chung is the lead principal at Camelthom LLC, an IT consulting firm focused on heath, education, and non-profit sectors. With over 15 years of experience in IT in diverse fields such as health, education, and the private sector, Mr. Chung has developed education management information systems for the projects in countries such as Zambia, Uganda, Malawai, and Sudan. Mr. Chung also served as a Peace Corp volunteer in Rundu, Namibia. Mr. Chung received his Bachelors in History and Masters of Business Administration in Operations Management from Columbia University.

Tom Newby is a structural engineer with Buro Happold in New York, specializing in stadium design. Tom was part of the founding group of Engineers Without Borders UK (www.ewb-uk.org) in 2001 and has since seen the organization go from a small student society to an NGO working on research and training at universities throughout the UK and supplying engineers to partner organizations around the world. With EWB-UK Tom filled the roles of fundraising director, chief executive and trustee before making the move across the Atlantic in 2010. Tom is also member of the disaster relief training and personnel NGO RedR UK and worked for the UK NGO Tearfund planning and establishing their housing and schools construction program in Leogane in Haiti following the devastating January 2010 earthquake.

David Sacco is a civil engineer with TPA Design Group in New Haven, Connecticut, working on site evaluation and design for residential, commercial and municipal clients.  His professional experience includes pavement and geotechnical engineering, site development and stormwater management design, and construction monitoring.  Mr. Sacco served as a school construction volunteer with the Peace Corps in Gabon, and as an Associate Field Officer for UNHCR in Sri Lanka through the United Nations Volunteers.  He has also worked on short-term projects in the DR Congo (former Zaire), Kosovo and Nigeria, and is a project mentor for the EWB Yale Student Chapter water supply project in Kikoo, Cameroon.  He studied architecture at Yale (BA) and civil engineering at the University of Washington (MS).

Mr. Stamatis is group vice president responsible for managing LBG’s U.S. Operations, which consists of four major business units: Planning Facilities and Sciences; Program & Construction Management; Engineering; and Environmental Engineering and Contingency Services. He joined LBG 25 years ago as an Engineer in Training while continuing to pursue graduate studies in Civil Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In his previous role, he was responsible for developing and expanding the firm’s practice in the eastern United States.  In his 25 years of experience, he has managed or served as principal in charge for a wide range of complex projects and programs in infrastructure, facilities, and environmental services for both public sector and private clients. Mr. Stamatis attended the Pennsylvania State University and completed his undergraduate studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in 10 states.

Peter has twenty-five years of experience in water resources, structural engineering, and civil engineering. He served in the Peace Corps for two years in the Republic of Seychelles and has traveled to EWB-USA projects in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. As project manager, Mr. Waugh provides the technical review of projects that have been proposed by chapters. He is also the chair of the project quality committee and is overseeing the development of technical webinars for chapter education.

Chelsey and Clayton are the co-founders of Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering Inc. (ELiTE), a recently incorporated New York based non-profit organization that facilitates inquiry based science and technology educational programs for students in developing communities through project and service learning. The two Columbia University alumni have been building ELiTE’s programs for the past three years in Ghana, Jamaica, and New York City. Chelsey is graduated in 2010 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering where he was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers and Engineers Without Borders, Ghana. Chelsey currently serves as the Executive Director for ELiTE and works as a Technical Education Consultant for a Harlem based nonprofit. Clayton is a 2011 graduate in Chemical Engineering at Columbia, where he was an active member in the CU-EWB chapter and served as the 2010-2011 Ghana Program Manager for the group’s work developing latrines and water distribution systems in rural Ghana. He is acting Vice-President of ELiTE, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in conjunction with his teaching work.

Tom Newby is a structural engineer with Buro Happold in New York, specializing in stadium design. Tom was part of the founding group of Engineers Without Borders UK (www.ewb-uk.org) in 2001 and has since seen the organization go from a small student society to an NGO working on research and training at universities throughout the UK and supplying engineers to partner organizations around the world. With EWB-UK Tom filled the roles of fundraising director, chief executive and trustee before making the move across the Atlantic in 2010. Tom is also member of the disaster relief training and personnel NGO RedR UK and worked for the UK NGO Tearfund planning and establishing their housing and schools construction program in Leogane in Haiti following the devastating January 2010 earthquake.

John Keith is an environmental executive and engineer with over 35 years experience in industry and government.   He has directed 10 major contamination remediation projects in the US, Latin America and India, and had executive authority for many others across the globe. He has also directed many water and sanitation capital projects, including a project remediating severe lead contamination in seven remote villages. In May 2011, he started as Director of Operations for Blacksmith, which has a mission of remediating polluted industrial sites in the developing world. Previously, Mr. Keith has been involved with environmental health and safety programs for pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Hoffman-La Roche, and Schering Plough. In 2005, Mr. Keith was seconded to UNICEF in Aceh, Indonesia to develop projects to restore Aceh’s waste disposal and wastewater treatment capacity after the devastating tsunami in 2004. Mr. Keith holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the NJ Institute of Technology.

Founded in 2006, the Hartford Professionals Chapter of EWB has undertaken a variety of exciting local, national, and international projects. In February 2011 the Hartford Professional Chapter concluded five years of water supply and greywater drainage work in the village of Abheypur, India. Teaming up with the University of Hartford student chapter of Engineers Without Borders and Navjyoti India Foundation, a local rural-development organization, the chapter implemented a solar powered water supply system at the village girls’ elementary school and four additional water supply systems around the village with 26,000 L of water storage capacity to address persistent potable water access issues. The Hartford Professional Chapter of EWB is currently teaming up with Namlo International and will be on the ground in Sabhung, Nepal in November 2011, performing our initial community needs and engineering assessment for what looks to be a technically challenging water supply project in a small, rural town in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Ms. Kutzing is a Project Manager for CDM in the Edison, NJ office with experience in water supply and water and wastewater treatment. She earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington. Ms. Kutzing is the Chairperson for the New Jersey Section of American Water Works Association Water For People Committee and a professional mentor for the EWB-USA Rutgers University Chapter. Ms. Kutzing has been a mentor for the Rutgers University Chapter on a project in Guatemala since January 2009.

A native of Maryland, Cynthia Mudd has a BS in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma and an MS in Occupational Therapy from Columbia University. As an occupational therapist, Mrs. Mudd worked in the areas of pediatrics within schools, home care, and private practice settings, as well as with adults within hospital and skilled nursing and rehabilitation settings. She currently works with adults primarily with post-surgical and neurological conditions. Following two medical trips to Haiti, Mrs. Mudd was asked to be part of another team in January 2010 to work with earthquake survivors transported from Port au Prince for further surgical intervention and rehabilitation. After returning from her experiences working with those injured in the earthquake, she started The Haiti Education Alliance (THEA), a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization which facilitates long-term, sustainable solutions for improving education as well as access to medical and rehabilitative care one community at a time in Haiti.

Jon Ordway, P.E., is a Senior Project Director/Associate with Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc. and has been with the company since 1995.  He works primarily with Sanborn Head’s industrial clients on environmental due diligence and site remediation projects.  Jon is the Operations Manager in Sanborn Head’s Concord, NH office and serves on the Human Resources and IT Boards.  He holds a BS (1988) and MS (1997) in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire where he specialized in water resources engineering.  Jon has completed projects across the US, as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America.  Jon joined EWB in 2010 with the intention of helping those in need either directly through participation on an EWB project or through lending his engineering and organizational skills to support the organization.

Ann Polaneczky is a global citizen from Nashua, New Hampshire. She is passionate about public health, environmental conservation, and human rights. She wants to bring justice to the worlds poor through her work as a civil engineer and thinks that proper infrastructure development is key to protecting human rights. She is a recent graduate from Northeastern University with a BS in Civil Engineering. In college, she was active in NU's chapter of Engineers Without Borders, served as president from 2009-2010, and traveled to both Uganda and Honduras for EWB-NEU projects. Currently, Ann is working for Partners in Health on the construction of the new National Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti for the Ministry of Health of Haiti as part of earthquake reconstruction.

Rosemary is a Chapter Relations Manager at Engineers-Without Borders-USA, serving the Northeast Region and has been with the organization since 2007. She is a graduate candidate in Master of Science in Project Management, holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Missouri State University, Springfield and a Diploma in Business Management from Kenya Institute of Technology, Nairobi.

Mr. Saulnier joined EWB-NEU in 2005 as the Mentor for the new chapter's first assessment trip to El Tecuan, Honduras.  Mr. Saulnier has been working with the group ever since, assisting with five water projects in Honduras and one in Uganda.  He is also working on a non-EWB wastewater project for a charitable hospital in Gujarat, India, and is assisting Partners In Health with the wastewater treatment system for a new hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti.  Mr. Saulnier has over ten years of consulting engineering experience designing water and wastewater treatment systems, and is currently the Cooperative Education Coordinator for Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University.

Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008 he was asked by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, which released its final report in September 2009. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009. Stiglitz holds a part-time appointment at the University of Manchester as Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He serves on numerous other boards, including Amherst College's Board of Trustees and Resources for the Future. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of R&D. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated into 35 languages, besides at least two pirated editions, and in the non-pirated editions has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Other recent books include The Roaring Nineties (W.W. Norton); Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics (Cambridge University Press) with Bruce Greenwald; Fair Trade for All (Oxford University Press), with Andrew Charlton; Making Globalization Work, (W.W. Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane, 2006); and The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, (W.W. Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane, 2008), with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University. His newest book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, was published in January 2010 by WW Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane.

Mr. Tanzi is a vice president and senior project manager for CDM in their Edison, New Jersey office. In addition to managing water and wastewater treatment and infrastructure projects for public and private clients, he is a Group Leader within the Water Services Division where he is responsible for the for management of technical staff within CDM’s New Jersey and New York City offices. He is also a professional mentor for the EWB‐Rutgers University Chapter and has traveled to Guatemala three times as part of a team that is completing the implementation of a water supply project for Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, a 4,000 person community in the Solola region of Guatemala. Mr. Tanzi has a B.E. in civil engineering and an M.E. in environmental engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of ASCE, NJWEA and a member of the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey American Water Works Association. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in 3 states.

Anna Tompsett is a Doctoral Candidate in the Sustainable Development PhD Program at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.  Her research focuses on infrastructure and development, with a particular focus on the distribution of impacts and participative decision-making processes.  Anna has experience in Zambia, Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Uganda.  She received a first class MEng in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and was awarded an EPSRC Fellowship to study for an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.  Anna has also worked for the World Bank, Engineers without Borders UK, Buro Happold, Arup Water, Empresa Nicaragüense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados and Mityana Standard Secondary School, Uganda.

Joe Mulligan is a Senior Engineer and LEED AP at Buro Happold in New York, NY and a board member of the Kounkuey Design Initiative.  Joe works on infrastructure master planning projects and innovative approaches to water management and has experience in India, China, Nigeria, El Salvador, Kenya, Russia, Bulgaria, UAE and the US.  Joe received a first-class MEng in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and the Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris and was awarded an EPSRC studentship to study for an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.  He has published papers on community participation in infrastructure development and sustainability assessment for urban master planning.  Joe has also worked for Engineers Without Borders UK, Arup Water and Solidarité Eau Europe.

Sean Walsh, P.E. is a practicing civil engineer working with ARCADIS-US on a variety of civil, geotechnical, and geo-environmental engineering projects for a number of public and private sector clients in the US. He is currently working with the New York Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders as the Project Manager for the Matunda Water Project located in western Kenya. Mr. Walsh received his BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

Adam Goossen is a structural engineer with UrbanTech in New York with experience in building and bridge design as well as construction engineering.  He began involvement with EWB at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has been active in the New York City professional chapter since 2009.  His EWB experience includes structural design for the Matunda, Kenya potable water project and cartography for the Yamabal, El Salvador project. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.