Frank Fladerer is a Civil Engineer with special focus on water management, graduated from the Technical University Dresden in 1991. He has more than 25 years of experience in project management and implementation for water and sanitation issues in urban areas in Southeast-Asia. Since 2004 he is working with BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association). As the BORDA regional director for Southeast-Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand) he is responsible for the management of co-operations with partners from national and local Governments, NGO’s, international organizations as well as the private sector, enabling the implementation of basic needs services in the water and sanitation sector the region.