Below are the various assignments this consultancy has been involved in since the launch of the business in 2014 (reverse chronological order):
Private Sector expert to ESPELIA regarding a Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) assignment with the City of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2022-underway)
Assessment of existing private-sector activities and policies, formulation of initiatives, capacity-building.
Financial consultant regarding PPP projects in the energy sector of Georgia (2023)
Formulation of a capacity-building program for the Georgian authorities, review of select pilot projects.
Financial consultant regarding various PPP projects in the road, port and IT sectors of Indonesia (2020-2022)
Review of project-specific feasibility studies, risk profiles, financing structures, and bankability.
Financial consultant for two Agribusiness Value Chain assignments in Tunisia – Cereals and Olive Oil (2020-2022)
Assessment of each value chain’s financial standing, and definition of a methodological approach to measure and monitor added value creation/evolution.
Financial consultant (2020-2022) regarding PDF solutions for infrastructure projects
Early-stage guidance on the design of PPP projet preparation/development facilities
Lead coordinator of the Asia Pacific Project Preparation Facility – AP3F (2015-2022)
This multi-donor trust fund of US$73 million, funded by the Governments of Japan, Canada and Australia, is managed by the Office of Public-Private Partnership (OPPP) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
AP3F covers all developing member countries of ADB and provides PPP-related assistance to government counterparts.
Work done included pre-launch trust fund finalization as well as post-launch activities as follows:
- Outreach to 19 ADB developing member countries across 4 regions (countries listed alphabetically):
- Central and West Asia: Azerbaijan,Kyrgyz Republic
- South Asia: Bhutan, Nepal
- Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand
- Pacific: Cook Islands, Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands,Tonga, Vanuatu
- Identification of PPP capacity-building and project preparation/monitoring opportunities
- Assistance to implementing agencies in securing AP3F funding
- Monitoring of actual technical assistance delivery
- Drafting of activity reports to donor countries
Financial consultant for a global Trade & Value Chain Finance assignment (2020)
Preparation of a report on financing tools, which fed into the book published by the World Bank in 2021 entitled “Financing More Resilient Trade and Value Chains”.
Financial consultant for an Infrastructure Diagnostic assignment in Morocco and Tunisia (2018-2020)
Financial assessment of the main state-owned enterprises in the Energy, Transport, and Water & Waste sectors.
Financial consultant for a Trade Insurance assignment in Jordan (2017)
Review of the trade insurance activities of the state-owned Jordan Loan Guarantee Corporation (JLGC).
Financial consultant for a Trade/Infrastructure Insurance assignment in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014-2015)
Review of the activities and modus operandi of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI|ACA), a pan-African institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, providing political and commercial risk mitigation solutions to traders, investors and lenders.
Infrastructure sector expert for this advisory firm specialized in mergers and acquisitions (2014-2015)
Joint-lead of the project finance team advising Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. on its investment projects (2014-2015)
Member of the advisory panel for examining alternative urban infrastructure financing modalities in Central Asia (2014)