Lara Egbeola-Martial is a WASH engineer and project manager with experience providing advisory and consulting services to urban water utilities and rural service providers. Lara strives to bridge technical aspects and policy frameworks and her experience focuses on developing solutions that improve water supply resilience and operational reliability, strengthen long-term strategic planning, enhance stakeholder engagement and achieve regulatory compliance for water and sanitation service providers. Lara’s wide-ranging expertise includes water and sanitation, off-grid renewable energy alternatives, and climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions. Lara holds a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.