Dr. Ali M. AZIMI (USA)
Focus: Energy and Environment

• Education: Ph.D (Environmental Studies), American University, London, UK, 2001, M.S. (Environmental Science), University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1980.
• Project preparation, leveraging co-financing, project implementation and evaluation of national and regional projects.
• Experienced manager with the ability to motivate, organize and coordinate multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams and has a proven ability to work effectively in various parts of the world with diverse organizations.
• Management experience of national and regional projects.
• Recipientof a Distinguished Service Award from the Government of Afghanistan for his previous work.
• Lanuages: French, English.

Joël CARETTE (France)
Focus: Land development, ecology, teledetection, hydrogeology, cartography

• Education: Ph.D., National Academy of Arts and Trades (France), geology as applicable to civil engineering.
  - 40 years of professional experience in the fields of environmental protection and land development (urban, rural land and natural resources).
• A civil servant at age 20, a full scope private sector engineer at 30, and an independent expert at 40, his career path follows a logical professional valorization of his talents.
• Invented highly effective methods of observations and specific environmental studies (3,5 million hectares studied with by his aero/ photographic / tele / geo-technique). Through practical and adapted solutions tailored to the technical and socio-economic realities of poor countries, he made possible many participative development actions with the local populations, with self-sustainable effects.
• Experience covering more than 40 million hectares of land in 30 countries (mostly in Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean) for environmental development projects.
• Lanuages: French, Spanish, some English.

Abdoulaye DJEGAL (USA / Senegal)
Focus: Water Resources Management, Sanitation, Social Development, Poverty Alleviation, Hygiene Education, Impact Assessment

• Education: MBA, Golden Gate Universty, San Francisco (USA); MS, Water Resources, Sanitary Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble (France); BS, Agricultural Irrigation and Drainage, University of Strasbourg (France).
• 39 years of professional experience in the fields of Social development, Poverty alleviation, and Engineering design.
• Managed from small to large complex programs: flood control, environmental impact assessment, community participation, Community health and Hygiene education, from feasibility studies through full completion.
• Proven organizational, interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Experience covering Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia, Djibouti; Haiti; Myanmar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and Yemen.
• Languages: English, French, Wolof, some Portuguese.

Moncef KHOUIDI (Tunisia)
Focus: Macro-economy

Mpoyi Bajikila LUKUSA (USA / Congo)
Focus: Transport Engineering and Planning, Economics

• Education: Ph.D., Polytechnic University (USA); M.S. University of Montreal (Canada)
• Experience of 19 years, including design, management and evaluation of cross-sectoral programs, as well as regional transportation corridors, trade facilitation and transit issues.
• Started as construction site supervisor in Kinshasa (Congo) and Europe, then specialized in African development issues / transportation policy with a Canadian NGO, and subsequently worked for 15 years as independent consultant for several UN organizations (UNCDF, UNDP, UNOPS).
• Teacher at New York University (Costs benefits analysis in appraisal of infrastructure projects).
• Recent activities: missions for UN agencies in Lesotho, Congo
• Languages: English, French, Congolese, some Spanish.
  
  • American Society of Civil Engineers since 1989
    
  • Institute of Transport Engineers since 1989
    
  • Transportation and Development Institute since 2002

Maarten POOLMAN (Holland)
Focus: Engineering with overall management and design/supervision: roads, bridges, buildings, dams, irrigation canals, water supplies.

• Education: civil engineering (Delft, Holland)
• Over 30 years experience, including coordination and negotiation with Governments and Funding Agencies for: Project identification, formulation and appraisal; acquisition, negotiation and management; periodic review/evaluation and trouble shooting.
• Initial experience with a Dutch engineering company, the bilateral Dutch Development Cooperation and the Dutch Foreign Service as a diplomat.
• Worked 14 years with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) as Deputy Division Chief & Senior Portfolio Manager, Division for Environmental Programmes and Infrastructure.
• Recent activities: missions for UN agencies in Burundi, Liberia, Indonesia and Afghanistan
• Lived in 8 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Near East.
• Languages: English and French, some Spanish.