About me
Dominic O’Neill is the Executive Director of the UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF)since its inception in 2021. Dominic has a long-standing career spanning over three decades in international development and environmental health. In his early career, heworked for the Ministry of Health in Namibia as an Environmental Health Adviser. He then worked for the UK Government as a senior civil servant in the Department for InternationalDevelopment serving as Country Director in Yemen, Sierra Leone, Nepal and as Head of UN funding in DFID. On leaving the UK Government, Dominic became the Global COO for WWFInternational.
Dominic served as an Executive Director on the Board of the African Development Bank representing the Governments of the Netherlands, the UK and Italy from 2013 to 2016, under Dr Kaberuka and then Dr Adesina. Dominic graduated in Environmental Health andlater completed an MSc in Water. Deeply committed to inclusivity and gender equality,Dominic became a member of the International Gender Champion Network in 2024.