Aidan Cronin is the Chief of the UNICEF Indonesia Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program and prior to this he worked with UNICEF India at State and National level.
He has also worked with UNHCR as a Water and Sanitation advisor in their Public Health Section in Geneva and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, University of Surrey, UK where his research focus was on the impact of anthropogenic activities on water quality in the EU and developing country settings.
He is a qualified civil engineer with an MSc in Environmental engineering and a PhD in water resources. His interests are in understanding the impact and contribution (health, nutrition, economic and social) of WASH provision and the policy and governance processes needed to achieve these.