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The Internet of Water: Putting Data Analytics to Work
Up to 40 percent of water sent through city systems may be lost to leaks along the way due to aging infrastructure.
Albert Cho is Xylem’s Vice President for Strategy and Business Development. He leads corporate and business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, market intelligence, and business development across the global $4.5 billion water technology company. Before Xylem he worked as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the State Department, where he was a White House Fellow and served on Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff. Previously he led innovation projects at Cisco, and at McKinsey & Company he helped found the Sustainability and Resources Practice. He served at the United Nations with Undersecretary General Jeffrey Sachs on a global plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Albert is a Rhodes Scholar, a Truman Scholar, and a Millennium Leadership Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Water Alliance, the editorial advisory board of World Water, and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Environment Technologies Trade Advisory Committee. He received an M.Sc in development economics and an M.B.A. with distinction from Oxford, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College.