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)