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In 2004 [[Kofi Annan]] established the UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. The intended mandate of the board is to “galvanize global action on water and sanitation issues…” with missions to “give advice to UN Secretary General; give input in global dialogue process; raise global awareness through mass-media, etc.; influence and work on global, regional, national institutions at highest level; and take its own actions towards [[MDGs]]”<ref>UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) (United Nations), [http://www.unsgab.org/about.htm About UNSGAB], accessed 27 October 2008.</ref>.

Though the board states that it is an “independent body”, critics of the board are concerned with several board members support of private sector participation in the water services sector as well and their promotion of cost-recovery approaches to water delivery. Perhaps even more disconcerting, however, is the fact that several prominent neoliberal figures sit on the board, including, former managing director of the [[IMF]] [[Michel Camdessus]], Egypt’s Irrigation and Water Minister and founder and member of the board of governors of the [[World Water Council]] ([[WWC]]) Mahmoud Abou Zeid, former chair off the [[Global Water Partnership]] ([[GWP]]) [[Margaret Catley-Carlson]], Secretary General of the [[OECD]] [[Angel Gurría]], and former senior executive-vice-president of [[Suez]] and former chairperson and CEO of [[Ondeo]] [[Gerard Payen]]. It’s no wonder why the recently appointed senior adviser on water to the [[UN]], Maude Barlow, in her 2007 book entitled ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water’ suggests that the neo-liberal agenda of the Washington Consensus has become the “guiding mantra for the elite running the global institutions involved in water development, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and even the United Nations” <ref>Maude Barlow (2007) ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle For the Right To Water’, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., p.37.</ref>.

'''Board Members'''

[[Prince Willem-Alexander]] (Chairperson)
[[Uschi Eid]] (Vice-Chair)
[[Mahmoud Abu-Zeid]]
[[David Boys]]
[[Michel Camdessus]]
[[Juanita Castano]]
[[Margaret Catley-Carlson]]
[[Jocelyn Dow]]
[[Giorgio Giacomelli]]
[[Angel Gurría]]
[[Han Seung-soo Kbe]]
[[Omar Kabbaj]]
[[Olivia La O’Castillo]]
[[Antonio Miranda]]
[[Maria Mutagamba]]
[[Poul Nielson]]
[[Hideaki Oda]]
[[Eric Odada]]
[[Gerard Payen]]
[[Judith Rees]]
[[Richard (Roy) Torkelson]]
[[Yordan Uzunov]]
[[Shucheng Wang]]

==References==
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−	Though the board states that it is an “independent body”, critics of the board are concerned with several board members support of private sector participation in the water services sector as well and their promotion of cost-recovery approaches to water delivery. Perhaps even more disconcerting, however, is the fact that several prominent neoliberal figures sit on the board, including, former managing director of the [[IMF]] [[~~Michel~~ Camdessus]], Egypt’s Irrigation and Water Minister and founder and member of the board of governors of the [[World Water Council]] ([[WWC]]) Mahmoud Abou Zeid, former chair off the [[Global Water Partnership]] ([[GWP]]) [[Margaret Catley-Carlson]], Secretary General of the [[OECD]] [[Angel Gurría]], and former senior executive-vice-president of [[Suez]] and former chairperson and CEO of [[Ondeo]] [[Gerard Payen]]. It’s no wonder why the recently appointed senior adviser on water to the [[UN]], Maude Barlow, in her 2007 book entitled ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water’ suggests that the neo-liberal agenda of the Washington Consensus has become the “guiding mantra for the elite running the global institutions involved in water development, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and even the United Nations” <ref>Maude Barlow (2007) ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle For the Right To Water’, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., p.37.</ref>.	+	Though the board states that it is an “independent body”, critics of the board are concerned with several board members support of private sector participation in the water services sector as well and their promotion of cost-recovery approaches to water delivery. Perhaps even more disconcerting, however, is the fact that several prominent neoliberal figures sit on the board, including, former managing director of the [[IMF]] [[Michael Camdessus]], Egypt’s Irrigation and Water Minister and founder and member of the board of governors of the [[World Water Council]] ([[WWC]]) Mahmoud Abou Zeid, former chair off the [[Global Water Partnership]] ([[GWP]]) [[Margaret Catley-Carlson]], Secretary General of the [[OECD]] [[Angel Gurría]], and former senior executive-vice-president of [[Suez]] and former chairperson and CEO of [[Ondeo]] [[Gerard Payen]]. It’s no wonder why the recently appointed senior adviser on water to the [[UN]], Maude Barlow, in her 2007 book entitled ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water’ suggests that the neo-liberal agenda of the Washington Consensus has become the “guiding mantra for the elite running the global institutions involved in water development, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and even the United Nations” <ref>Maude Barlow (2007) ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle For the Right To Water’, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., p.37.</ref>.

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 [[Prince Willem-Alexander]] (Chairperson)
 [[Uschi Eid]] (Vice-Chair)
 [[Mahmoud Abu-Zeid]]
 [[David Boys]]
 [[Michel Camdessus]]
 [[Juanita Castano]]
 [[Margaret Catley-Carlson]]
 [[Jocelyn Dow]]
 [[Giorgio Giacomelli]]
 [[Angel Gurría]]
 [[Han Seung-soo Kbe]]
 [[Omar Kabbaj]]
 [[Olivia La O’Castillo]]
 [[Antonio Miranda]]
 [[Maria Mutagamba]]
 [[Poul Nielson]]
 [[Hideaki Oda]]
 [[Eric Odada]]
 [[Gerard Payen]]
 [[Judith Rees]]
 [[Richard (Roy) Torkelson]]
 [[Yordan Uzunov]]
 [[Shucheng Wang]]