Will Sarni

Founder and CEO
Water Foundry
@WillSarni

Will Sarni is an internationally recognized thought leader on water strategy and innovation. He has been a sustainability and water strategy advisor to multinationals, water technology companies, and NGOs for his entire career. Sarni has authored numerous books and articles and presented on: the value of water, innovations in digital water technology, the circular economy, and the energy-water-food nexus. He is currently working on two forthcoming books: Water Stewardship and Business Value: Creating Abundance from Scarcity (Sarni, W., and Grant, D., Routledge 2018) and Creating 21st Century Abundance through Public Policy Innovation: Moving Beyond Business as Usual (Sarni, W. and Koch, G., Greenleaf Publishing 2018). Sarni was named a 2016 XPRIZE Bold Visioneer for the Safe Drinking Water Team and is a board member of Project WET, project board member of 10.10.10, and founder and chairman of WetDATA.org. He serves as technical advisor for the Climate Bonds Initiative: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate and Water Resilience and is on the Scientific Program Committee for Stockholm World Water Week. Sarni also serves on the executive council of NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the editorial board of the Journal of Water Security.