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CHRISTEN Roger, B.Sc. Engineering. MBA, President.

30 years of experience. Roger Christen is an engineer, MBA and a Certified Management Consultant and senior project manager with a varied experience in several aspects of power reform from managing power utilities to institutional strengthening, privatisation, letting of concessions, tariff setting, etc. He has a total of 29 years of professional experience in consulting and in line management for both private and public sector institutions, at the national and international levels. Some 13 years of his early career were spent with Price Waterhouse Management Consulting Services. He has spent the last eleven years in international consulting for donors, governments and public enterprises mainly in the development of the private sector, in design and implementation of privatisation programs, and in institutional restructuring projects. He has lived with his family overseas for continuous periods. He has been at the head of his consulting enterprise for the last seven years. His long personal experience with donor funded projects, in leading large multidisciplinary teams in complex institutional reform assignments internationally and especially with power company line management in developing countries, combined with his personal living and investment experiences give him a unique perspective on power sector reform.
BRILOT, Roland, B.Sc. Physics, Civil engineering, Certificate of environmental Science, Power Utility consultant and Institutional Reform Specialist.

25 years of experience. Mr. Brilot has worked for 20 years in the electric sector, successively for a public utility (Hydro-Québec), bilateral and international financial institutions (Canadian International Development Agency, World Bank), and since 1991 for various consulting engineering firms. He is a specialist in energy planning, power generation planning, energy economics, institutional reform and privatisation. Experienced in project cost benefit analysis, long-run marginal cost analysis for optimisation purposes. Preparation, supervision and implementation of energy projects in developing countries (Africa, Latin America and Asia); hydro and thermal generation, transmission and distribution, rural electrification, institutional support, energy sector restructuring, training. Extensive overseas experience. Since he joined the private sector, he is more and more involved in business development, contacts with clients and financial institutions, financial packaging, proposals, contract negotiation and administration. In the last four years, he worked almost exclusively as a Consultant, either to Governments or private Investors on water and electricity public utilities, privatisation projects, and for independent private power producers. He is well aware of the various privatisation schemes and related legal and financial issues, financial simulations of the transactions, negotiation of legal documents such as Concession Agreements, Power Purchase Agreements, Fuel Purchase Agreements, etc.
POIRIER, Martin J., B.A.Sc., Engineering, MBA, Marketing & Privatisation Specialist.

Mr. Poirier is an engineer and MBA with over 25 years of experience in the marketing, management and financing of many international utility projects in the fields of engineering, construction, technology transfer, institutional and corporate restructuring, and privatisation. He has held senior executive positions with well-known engineering and management consulting firms including in the areas of strategic direction and corporate governance.

During his 10 years with The SNC Group, he held several key positions including Vice-president, Project Financing, CFO of a major Electrification project in Saudi Arabia, Marketing Director and Project manager on various power and telecommunication utility projects. As Vice-president of Price Waterhouse Canada Inc., Mr. Poirier was responsible for the restructuring of a large para-statal company in Gabon and was assigned as Interim General Manager of ENELGUI (Guinea Electric Power Authority). He was also Assistant Vice-president of Teleglobe Canada Inc., responsible for negotiating traffic sharing agreements with Public Telecommunications Utilities in Eastern Europe. He has also been Vice-president of Arborescence, a start-up company specialising in Internet technologies.

More recently, Mr. Poirier has worked as a consultant for Roche-Deloitte the CEA of a CIDA funded privatisation project in Egypt. Mr. Poirier has worked, lived and held long-term positions in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
DUTOIT, Pierre, Consulting Engineer, has over 40 years of experience in power generation and distribution, water supply, irrigation, gained with Engineers, Contractors and Utilities, he is a highly qualified Consultant for power supply and water supply utilities.

Since 1975 he has advised a wide range of insitutions (WORLD BANK, UNDP, FENU, ADEME, public ministries in Burundi, Cameroon, Guinea, India, Mauritania, Rwanda), consulting and engineering companies (BCEOM, COYNE ET BELLIER, DECON, ERNST & YOUNG, HALCROW, I.C.E.A, LOUIS BERGER, SEED, SOGREAH, TECSULT) ; Water management companies (ADM (Mozambique), CASAN (Brazil) CEDAE (Brazil), EMAE (São Tomé), LYSA (France) REGIDESO (Burundi), SABESP (Brazil), SAUR (France), SAUR INTERNATIONAL (France), SBEE (Benin), SEEG (Guinea), SONEG (Senegal) ) ; and Power management companies : (EDF (France), EDM (Mozambique) EECI (Côte d’Ivoire) ENELGUI (Guinea), ENERCA, (Centrafrica), SAKENERGO (Georgia), SEGESA (Equatorial Guinea) SENELEC (Senegal), SOGEL (Guinea)).

From 1963-1975 he was Successively Project Engineer, Chief Engineer at SERETE (Brazil). During that period, M. Dutoit has carried successfully many engineering projects whose most important is the Rio de Janeiro Water Supply System, Guandú system (2.3 millions m3/day)  and the Boa Esperança Hydroelectric Plant, State of Piauí (300 MW).
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