Tunisia

:                 Financial MarketsInstitution             Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises – Reims Management SchoolDate                       1965 - 1968

Degree:

                 Master in Business Administration

                                Specialisation Degree: Marketing and Foreign Trade

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 ·          RBE  :  MANAGING DIRECTOR OF RBE S.U.A.R.L., A PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING FIRM, BASED IN TUNISIA

 ·       SENIOR EXPERT: RURAL FINANCE AND MICRO FINANCE

                                                Micro Finance Systems

                                                Guarantee Funds

                                                Rural Finance

SME & Micro Enterprise Finance.

Training and financial services

Project management with demonstrated experience in international relations.

Experienced banker and consultant, holding a number of senior positions with the French private commercial bank Crédit Agricole. In addition, worked for two years, on a part time basis, as a trainer with the CFPB (French Banking Training system for bank staff and executives).

Crédit Agricole technical assistance programmes manager.

Team leader of three long-term missions (Togo, Sultanate of Oman, Malawi).

Managing Director of a Consulting firm (2008 till now) : RBE -  Consultancy work centred in the areas of private sector and SMEs development, Micro Finance, Rural Finance, Agricultural & Micro Insurance.

Consultancy work for the European Commission (PHARE, TACIS, MEDA), EBRD and World Bank, FAO, IFAD, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), in a variety of countries including Central Europe, Mediterranean region, Asia,  Middle East, Africa.

Senior Expert : Private Sector Support, SMEs development, Rural Finance and microfinance (development, training and financial services) (consultancy, MEDA TEAMS Brussels)

Expert registered in the roster of EUROPEAID EU individual experts for technical assistance to third countries in the area of humanitarian aid

Expert registered in the roster of CGAP

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Relevant experience in working under Indefinite Delivery Contracts (Framework Contracts with European Commission): Lithuania, Romania (1996, 1997, 1998) 

 COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE: 

·        CENTRAL  EUROPE (2 years):       Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova

·        CENTRAL ASIA                               Turkmenistan

·         ASIA (2 years):                                 Philippines,  Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, India

·         NORTH AFRICA   (5  years):         Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

·         MIDDLE EAST   (5 years):             Oman, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq

·        AFRICA (9 years) :                           Côte d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Togo, Rwanda, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Mali,

                                                                  Central African Republic, Comoros, Ethiopia, Benin,  Uganda, Malawi, 

                                                                   Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 ·  European Commission, both at headquarters in Brussels (DG Development,, DG External Relations (RELEX) EUROPEAID and in projects : ASIA, PHARE, TACIS, MEDA )

·  British, Swedish, French, Dutch, Lithuanian, Belgian and Italian private consulting companies·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          EBRD, World Bank, FAO, IFAD, CFD projects

·  French banking training centres,  French private commercial banks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RECORD