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Board of TrusteesWaterAid is governed by a Board of Trustees, who are responsible for ensuring that the charity is well managed in line with its vision and mission, and that it abides by its charitable objectives. WaterAid currently has 12 Trustees who all give up their time and energy voluntarily to ensure that WaterAid is compliant with the legal and statutory requirements of a UK charity and registered company. Trustees are recruited through an open application process to ensure that we have the professional skills and experience needed for WaterAid to operate effectively. While retaining representation from the UK water industry - reflecting our origins - we actively encourage people with international development experience and those of African and Asian origins to apply. We will also continue to strive for a diverse and gender-balanced Board. Trustees are elected for a three-year term that may be renewed for another three years. In occasional circumstances the term may be extended beyond this to retain specific skills. WaterAid Trustees’ ManualThe WaterAid Trustees’ Manual has been put together as a resource for new and existing Trustees. It aims to explain clearly and simply the role of a WaterAid Trustee, the structure of the Board of Trustees and its four sub-committees and the relationship between the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive and WaterAid. The manual also serves as an introduction to WaterAid and its ethos. Download the current Trustees' Manual ( Memorandum and Articles of Association ( Chair, Board of Trustees
Jeremy Pelczer  Jeremy Pelczer was elected Chair in October 2007. He has a financial background and is a qualified accountant. He moved into the water industry in 1996 and was President American Water in Sept 2003 and became CEO and President American Water in February 2004 until December 2005. He became the Chief Executive of Thames Water in November 2005 until its sale was completed in December 2006.
Jeremy attended Harvard Business school in 2002 and was a Board He is a keen cricket player, being a member of both the Marylebone TrusteesPaul Batchelor
Mr Batchelor is the non-executive chairman of Crown Agents. He is also non-executive chairman of Oxford Policy Management and a member of the UK and International Advisory Councils of Transparency International. From 1974-82 Mr Batchelor was an economic consultant with Coopers&Lybrand. He was a partner in C&L/PwC from 1982-2004, holding various UK, European and global management positions. From 1969-72 Mr Batchelor served the Swaziland Government as an economist (ODI Fellow) and was senior economist for the Malawi Government (UNDP/OPAS) 1972-74. He graduated from, and undertook postgraduate studies in development economics at, Cambridge University. Hugh Belshaw, OBE
He retired in 1996 and was awarded an OBE. He served as trustee and treasurer of Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group -ITDG) until 2006 and served as a trustee on two His hobbies include volunteering with his wife on practical projects both Gregory Hodkinson
By profession a Transport Planner, Gregory has 35 years' experience planning, designing and managing transport and infrastructure projects, His appointment extends Arup's ongoing commitment to WaterAid. With  Agnes Kalibbala joined the WaterAid Board of Trustees in December 2006. She currently holds the position of ambassador/deputy high commissioner of Uganda and the deputy permanent representative to UNEP and UN-HABITAT based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Prior to this she was the country programme representative of ADD (Action on Disability and Development) for Uganda and also supported ADD work at regional level in Tanzania, Ghana and Burkina Faso. She has Sandeep Katwala
Mr Katwala is the Managing Partner of the India Practice at the global law firm Linklaters. He also sits on the Asia Executive Committee of Linklaters. He has been active in the Indian market since the early 1990s and has been involved as legal counsel on a number of major transactions into and out of India. Sandeep started his professional career in 1983 in corporate finance with NatWest International and subsequently joined Linklaters in 1990, qualifying as a solicitor in 1992. He has worked on a wide variety of Mergers and Aquisitions, Corporate and energy/infrastructure transactions over the past 20 years, with a focus on emerging markets and, in particular, India. He studied law at the University of Kent at Canterbury and also holds an MBA from the City University Business School. Tony Kelly Tony Kelly was elected to join WaterAid as a Trustee at the Annual General Meeting on 5 October 2006.
Tony, a civil engineer, has spent nearly 30 years in the Australian water industry with extensive experience in planning, design and construction as well as key roles in strategic planning, major utility reforms including water authority mergers, corporatisation, pricing, business process redesign and contracting out. Since joining Yarra Valley Water Ltd at its inception in 1995, Tony has Tony was appointed managing director of Yarra Valley Water in January Helen Pankhurst
She has also worked as head of international programmes in WOMANKIND Worldwide, a women's rights and development organisation and as the Helen's academic background has been varied, starting in a French school Nigel Reader  Nigel Reader, CBE, ACMA joined WaterAid's Board of Trustees in 2000 and is Chair of the Audit Committee. He is currently director of finance of the Environment Agency, having previously held the posts of finance director and regional general manager (Wessex) for the National Rivers Authority.
His association with water dates from 1975 when he joined the Wessex Water Authority as regional management accountant. He is a member of  Pamela Taylor, OBE joined WaterAid Board of Trustees in 2003 and was elected to Vice Chair in December 2007. Pamela has been chief executive of Water UK since April 1998. She was previously chief executive of the Water Companies Association, 1995/1998. A management consultant working for WHO and the NHS between 1994-1995 and director of corporate affairs world-wide she also sat on the board of the BBC between 1992-1994. She was also head of public affairs and member of board of the British Medical Association between1977-1992. She is a former president of the Institute of Public Relations and chair of
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Paul Batchelor was coopted to the Board in September 2009 and voted in formally at the AGM in October 2009. 
Hugh Belshaw, OBE qualified as a chartered accountant with a small London partnership in 1962 and spent some years as a management accountant before joining Oxfam in 1970 as finance director. Oxfam grew rapidly over the following decades and the job developed accordingly.
Gregory Hodkinson was elected as Chair of WaterAid America in September 2007 and joined WaterAid’s Board of Trustees in February 2008. He is Chairman of the Americas Region of Arup, a leading global engineering and consulting firm responsible for some of the world's most innovative building, transport and civil engineering projects.
Sandeep Katwala was coopted to the Board in September 2009 and voted in formally at the AGM in October 2009.
Helen Pankhurst joined the WaterAid Board of Trustees in December 2006. She is currently the senior technical advisor for the water team in CARE which she joined after three years as the Country Representative for WaterAid in Ethiopia - the country she has was born in, spent half her life in, and feels a strong affinity for.