Philip de Souza is the Global Lead: Water Safety Planning at Atom Consulting, Sydney. He is a professionally registered and certified engineer with more than 20 years of experience with water supply and sanitation services in local government, benchmarking, water treatment, water quality and risk management. Philip has a BSc Chemical Engineering degree (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and an Honours in Water Utilisation Engineering (University of Pretoria, South Africa). Philip is an IWA Fellow, the previous co-chair of the IWA Water Safety Planning Specialist Group, and forms part of the WHO’s global panel of WSP Trainer of Trainers.