2013 PSLO Water & Sanitation Mission Profile Booklet - Greater ...

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Edouard Perard, Coordinator, Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), World
Bank
Edouard Perard, a French national, is the Regional Coordinator for Europe, Central
Asia and South Asia and the Water Sector Coordinator of the Public Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) at the World Bank. Edouard is an Economist
specialized in water supply/sanitation and private sector participation in
infrastructure. Before joining the World Bank in 2008, he worked for the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and at the
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies focusing on public-private
partnerships and regulatory reforms in the water sector. Edouard holds a PhD in
Economics and a Master's degree in Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
de Paris (Sciences Po).
William Rex, Lead Water Resources Specialist, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank
William works in the World Bank's central water unit on hydropower and water
strategy. From 2006 to 2012 William lived in Lao PDR, where he was Team Leader
for the World Bank’s support to the Nam Theun 2 hydropower project (a
US$1.3 billion, 1080MW hydropower project) as well as for a hydropower and
mining technical assistance project. Prior to moving to Vientiane, William
worked for the World Bank’s corporate strategy group where he led a team responsible
for helping senior management think about the long-term strategic
challenges facing the World Bank, including developing scenarios about how the
world and international development could evolve by 2020. William received a
MPA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, which he attended on a Fulbright
scholarship, and also has degrees in international politics and industrial psychology from the University
of Cape Town, South Africa. He is married, with three sons.
Nancy Bikondo, Procurement Specialist, Operation Procurement Policy & Services, World Bank
Nancy Bikondo- Omosa is the procurement specialist at the World Bank in the Operations
Procurement Policy and Country Services department. In this role she is
the Procurement Business Outreach Coordinator, where she frequently presents on
the World Bank’s procurement policy. She has been at the Bank for ten years.
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