Dominic O'Neill

Executive Director of The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)


Dominic served as a GAIN Board member from 2017 to 2023, and was the Chair of the Finance and Risk Committee from 2018 to 2023. 
Dominic has worked in International Development over the last 30yrs in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He spent much of his career with the UK Department for International Development as a Senior Civil Servant serving as DFID Head of Office in Yemen, Sierra Leone and Nepal. Dominic also served as the UK’s Board Director at the African Development Bank in Abidjan. 
Dominic was then the Global Chief Operating Officer at WWF International in Geneva where he was responsible for the global operations of WWF. 

In 2021 he joined the United Nations to set up the new Sanitation & Hygiene Fund as the first Executive Director.