Frank Rogalla is Director of Innovation and Technology at Aqualia in Madrid, a company that manages water and environmental services for nearly 30 M people in 17 countries. Previously he worked as a global process leader in a large engineering and construction company, Black & Veatch, coordinating technical teams between London, Kansas City and the Asian offices (Singapore, Hong-Kong, Perth).

After studying Environmental Engineering in Germany, he obtained his MSc with a Fulbright scholarship in the USA. He worked for 10 years in the development center of Veolia (formerly Compagnie Générale des Eaux, CGE) in Paris, France. He collaborated with Metcalf & Eddy in New York, and for Severn Trent Services in Sao Paulo, Brazil, always responsible for technology transfer in large municipal or industrial infrastructure projects.