Tunisia

Vision Finance - Tunis32 rue du Maroc, RBE,

Marsa Corniche

2070 La Marsa

Tunisia

                    COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE:

                    CLAUDE JEAN GUILLEMAIN

                    email:        cjg@financewithvision.com

                    Tel:           + 216 71 778 379

                    Cell:          +216 21 835 359

                    Skype:       klaodguillemanin

                    Facebook: www.facebook.com/claude.guillemain

                    with Vision Finance since February 2011

 

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Institution              Institut Technique de Banque (ITB) - ParisDate                       1970 - 1972

Degree

:                 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

http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.9.31348

 

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 

Date :

Location ;

Company :

Position :

 

 

Description :

 

 

September 1982 - September 1985

MUSCAT - Sultanate of Oman

CNCA / The OMAN BANK FOR AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (O.B.A.F.)

Team Leader (long term technical assistance)

Deputy General Manager & Manager Control and Systems      

Seconded from CREDIT AGRICOLE Group, France

Setting up, management and control of the O.B.A.F.

Data: 120 staff members, 2000 customers' USD 10 million outstanding credits.

Training for 120 staff members

 OTHERS: Publications

 

1989: General methodology for the feasibility of a sustainable Rural Finance System (European Commission)

1990: Specialised credit lines for SME (European Commission)