Anant is an Environmental and Civil Engineer with a specialisation in Urban Water Management. His expertise spans across research, capacity building, implementation, and policy analysis. In his current role as a Programme Officer with Sanitation Capacity Building Programme, Anant works on building capacities of relevant and important stakeholders in the sector of Water and Sanitation through his work on the development and dissemination of technical modules at National and Regional levels. Anant is a Birkigt Scholar and Holland Excellence Scholar and holds a Master’s degree from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He holds an International experience in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector given his time working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). Furthermore, he worked at the grassroot level during his time with Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) on increasing access to water and wastewater management for vulnerable communities in Tier 3 cities of India. With published literature on Sanitation planning frameworks, Decentralized wastewater management, and Nature based solutions, Anant takes keen interest in bringing research to the forefront of his work.