ANTOINE WALTER

Antoine WALTER is a second-generation Water Professional - the legend says, his dad traded excavator sessions for him in river banks, against lunch invitations. He followed on this early start by completing a Master in Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, then proceeding to win the "Golden Mission" contest organized by ENGIE (GDF-SUEZ).

This led him to travel the Asia-Pacific region for one year, to explore amongst others water treatment in Hong Kong, desalination facilities in Melbourne, water distribution management in Jakarta, water innovation in Singapore, or social water projects in New Delhi and Gujarat. All of that was documented in videos, blog articles, radio spots, and conferences in engineering and business schools.

He then took on a challenge within SUEZ in Switzerland, to draw the roadmap of ozone and UV products, facilitating the Global Innovation Team. The next challenges would involve process application development, sales management for the DACH and Nordic region, with an emphasis on micropollutant removal.

Antoine moved to GF Piping Systems in 2017 to take over the business development for the company's services in Europe, then for all Water Treatment topics worldwide.

In his various roles, he's been a regular speaker at conferences on four continents, like Micropol Ecohazard in Singapore, the ReUse Symposium in Seattle, the SAPPMA Conference in Johannesburg, or the UNESCO Conference in Frankfurt. He's also regularly hosting conference sessions, like very recently at the UN-Habitat "Innovate for Cities" Conference, at the Global Water Summit or at the BlueTech Forum. Since 2020, he hosts the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast and regularly intervenes in Business and Engineering schools.

In 2022 he became a TEDx Speaker, talking about the importance of Wastewater Reuse and Resource Recovery.

He's married, a happy father of three, and he's French (nobody's perfect ).