David Auerbach
co-founder
Sanergy
Overview
David Auerbach co-founded Sanergy, a pioneering social business that provides affordable, safe sanitation to residents of urban informal settlements in Africa. He served as Deputy Chair for Poverty Alleviation at the Clinton Global Initiative. David began his career researching foreign policy at the Center for American Progress before teaching in central China for two years. He holds numerous fellowships as well as an MBA from the MIT and a BA from Yale University.
Published articles
Sanergy
Sanergy promotes sustained access to quality sanitation in informal settlements. It creates an efficient, equitable and sustainable sanitation cycle by building a network of small- scale sanitation centers (called Fresh Life Toilets) across slums, developing an affordable containerized waste collection infrastructure, and converting this waste at a central processing facility into organic fertilizer, insect-based animal feed and other high-margin products that address serious challenges in the agricultural sector.