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| GAGNON, Miville, B.A Sc, Civil Engineering, M.Sc. (Hydraulics) M.I.T., USA, over 35 years experience, Senior civil engineer – Dam safety and water management. Mr. Gagnon has extensive senior level experience in the design of hydro projects covering both dam safety aspects as well as operational issues. He has been involved in numerous projects dealing with the evaluation of hydropower sites both in Canada and throughout the world. Mr. Gagnon has worked with various consulting engineering firms including as a hydraulic engineer with The SNC Group and Acres Ltd., and as project manager with RSW Inc. Since 1992, he has worked as a senior power project consultant. |
| GAUTHIER Florent, Geological Engineer and Consultant, Mines with over 30 years of experience for both the private sector and for international funding institutions specializing in mining, geology, and mine evaluations since 1981, offering the contracted services of geological and mining teams and active in several junior mining investment companies with exploration properties in Quebec and Mali, since 1997. In collaboration with a Canadian Consortium headed by ROCHE in partnership with Price Waterhouse, he was Study Director responsible for all aspects in developing a revitalization strategy for the Moroccan mining sector other than phosphates. The study involved a comprehensive review of all aspects related to sector development with a team of some 50 experts. |
| HUSSEIN, Hassan, BA Business Administration, Senior Financial Executive and Investment Banking Specialist, 23 years of experience. Mr. Hassan Hussein is Chairman and Managing Director of his own Investment advisory services firm TIIA, and is the first President of the Egypt branch of the KBC Bank (Belgium). For the past three years, TIIA was the local partner of the Deloitte-Roche Consortium, a Canadian Executing Agency of a major CIDA-funded privatization project in Egypt. He was formerly the Deputy Chief Executive of a Bechtel Privatization Project in Egypt (USAID funded). Mr. Hussein holds a certificate from Harvard University in Corporate Finance and has extensive experience in privatization, investment banking, fund management, international stock markets, and public offerings in Europe, the Middle East, and Egypt. Mr. Hussein worked with various Egyptian public sector holding companies and their affiliated company chairmen since 1991 and led the effort to establish privatization units in six holding companies. He was responsible for debt analysis and development of privatization methods and options. He has been recently elected as board member and secretary general to Egyptian Capital Market Association (ECMA) and as such plays personally a leading senior role in the development of the Capital Market as an advocate to market forces. Before returning to Egypt in 1992 he managed funds in Europe and the Gulf, actively investing in the European stock markets on behalf of Gulf investors and established strong relationships with institutional investors and leading investment banks. After returning to Egypt he lectured on finance and banking in the Central Bank of Egypt 's Bankers Institute and the AUC. |
| PARÉ, Simon, B.A Sc Engineering Physics, M.Sc., Industrial Management, DES - Applied Economics, Electricity Markets Specialist. - Mr. Paré is an international consultant on electrical power systems. His scope of activities includes: institutional audits and analysis, corporate planning, generation planning, power systems exchanges, wholesales tariffs, economic studies, etc. Previously, Mr. Paré was employed by Hydro-Quebec for 32 years. He was in charge of power exchanges between Hydro-Quebec and the neighboring systems of Ontario and New York State. From 1995 to 2000, he served on Hydro-Quebec’s Board of Directors where he sat on the Executive, the Audit and other BOD committees. Since 1995 as an International Consultant on Power Systems, Mr. Paré has been involved in many power projects including: the Gambia River Development Organization (OMVG); the Bogoutchanskaya (Russia) Power Station Rehabilitation; the Nam Khan II Power Project (Laos) funded by CIDA; the Northeast China Power Group (Asian Development Bank.); the Russia-China Interconnection Project aimed at interconnecting the Russian (Siberian) grid with the Chinese grid; the Laos National Grid Corporation Study. Mr. Paré also worked on various international studies for Hydro-Quebec International, in particular: as leader of the team preparing the privatization specifications of SEGBA (The Buenos Aires Electric Utility) in Argentina (World Bank); as an Institutional Specialist responsible for the administrative structures, operation rules and framework Study on an interconnection project between the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia); as a consultant to the Senegal River Development Organization (OMVS), for a study of the high voltage transmission system connecting Mali, Mauritania and Senegal with the Manantali generating station; on the Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Turkey - Iraq Interconnection Study ; on the Ertan Hydroelectric Power Station, Sichuan Province - China aimed at defining an institutional and commercial framework between the generation and distribution utilities; Mr. Paré also worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C. as a Power Economist and Engineer on leave from Hydro-Quebec. |
| PHAM, Co, B.Sc. Eng., M.Eng., PhD Engineering, Tariff specialist, 28 years of experience. Dr. Co Pham has more than 25 years of experience with Hydro-Quebec in the field of Energy Development and Regulation. He has directed numerous tariff, tariff reform and rate adjustment studies in Canada and in foreign countries. He is also a planning specialist in least cost and marginal cost studies. More recently, Dr. Co Pham has been working as a Consultant in Regulation and Tariffs, including an assignment as Team Leader for a World Bank/CIDA Project in Russia providing technical assistance to the Murmansk Regional Energy Commission in conjunction with the Russian Power Sector Reform Program. |
| SERBERIE, Gilbert. M.Sc. and B.Sc. Geological engineering, GIS specialist with over 25 years experience. Mr. Sergerie is a senior GIS specialist in all areas of Power and Mining applications with extensive experience in implementing GIS Mining and Power related projects internationally. His expertise revolves around management, consulting and development of Information Systems for the resource and power industries. As a project evaluation specialist he has led the computer-based assessment of over 50 mining projects of various types around the world. Several GIS applications/solutions have been developed through his direct involvement in Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal, and the Philippines. Positions held by Mr. Sergerie include: Vice-President, Business Development, CHIM; Project Director, Asia, Photosur Geomat International; Consultant for the United Nations in Lao People's Democratic Republic; Geodata Specialist and Mining project Evaluator, SNC Lavalin Inc.; Management Consulting project leader, Napocor, Philippines; Technical and Management consultant for an integrated geo-scientific information system in Thailand (CIDA funded). More recently and for over five years, Mr. Sergerie was involved as a management consultant in the re-structuring and privatization of electrical utilities in India. |