Peter Cookey has two major missions to direct a synergy between policy (governance), science and technology in the drive towards innovative, effective, practical, affordable, applicable, acceptable and replicable sanitation and water research solutions that could meet the needs of the population at the base-of-the-pyramid (BOPs) and hard-to-reach-areas (HTRAs), and also provide products and services for the marketplace and entrepreneurial investments. He believes in the far-reaching effects that transdisciplinary studies and research could have on solution discovery in sanitation and the SDG 6 and is an avid advocate for synergizing science, technology and governance in order to achieve improved service and access expansion in sanitation towards contributing innovative, practical, effective and cost-efficient solutions globally.