Albert Cho is vice president for strategy and business development at Xylem, a global water technology company. Previously, he was a senior advisor to the deputy secretary at the US State Department, where he was a White House fellow and served on then-secretary Clinton’s policy planning staff. Cho has also been an executive at Cisco Systems, worked at McKinsey & Company, and served at the United Nations on a global plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. He serves on the board of the US Water Alliance, the editorial advisory board of World Water, and was twice appointed to the US Department of Commerce’s Environment Technologies Trade Advisory Committee.