Grégoire Landel is a Franco-American social entrepreneur and the founder of CityTaps. He is a feminist & a humanist. He studied engineering in the USA at Princeton, MIT, & Columbia University and worked in software in San Francisco and Kampala before moving to Paris in 2005, where he became an expert in the water/finance nexus in developing countries. This is how he developed his vision for CityTaps which he launched in 2015. Grégoire is married and the father of 3 children.

Solution: CityTaps has developed a solution that bridges the gap between water utilities and the urban poor: a prepayment service that comprises the world's only smart and prepaid water meter, and a billing software.