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ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Jack Sim
 Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization (WTO), believes in living according to the motto "Live A Useful Life". Not having a university degree did not stop Jack from starting his own business at age 24. After seeing the futility of focusing only on financial gain, he left his business and ventured into non-profit work. He has dedicated his remaining years towards humanitarian causes that can give real meaning to his life.
Jack developed a keen interest and concern for toilets because he felt this subject was neglected and there was too much to be done, which led him to establish the Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS) in 1998. He adopted the mission to raise the standards of public toilets in Singapore and around the world. Since the inception of RAS, Jack aimed to put Singapore on the "world map" by taking the lead in having clean public toilets. As Jack began his work in Singapore, he realized there were other existing toilet associations doing good work in other countries but no channels existed to facilitate information sharing and resource mobilization. There was lack of synergy. Hence, with a dream to have a world body to unite various toilet associations, Jack founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO) in 2001 and the World Toilet College (WTC) in 2005.
In 2004, Jack was awarded the Singapore Green Plan Award 2012 by Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) for his contribution to Environment. In 2006, Jack Sim was invited to launch The German Toilet Organisation in Berlin. He is also a founding member of American Restroom Association. In 2007, Jack became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) comprised of about 104 participating organizations active in the field of sanitation. Jack is also an Ashoka Global Fellow and was named by Time Magazine as Hero of the Environment 2008. He sits in the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Councils (GAC) for Water Security and also the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship.
In 2009, he joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy as a master student in Public Administration as well as a visiting fellow at its Institution of Water Policy.
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