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Winning Formula for PPPs

Join our panelists for 60 minutes of lively conversation on professional careers and public-private partnerships.

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Join us on this show and ask all the questions you have relating to developing sucessful public private partnerships.

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Episode 70 – Level up your Career – Winning Formula for PPPs

Panelists

Maurice Diamond

CP3P Tutor and Coach, IPATS Ltd and Training Bytesize

London, UK

Delivering PPP, leadership and management training. Maurice has significant international PPP global PPP experience. He was the global commercial director for Crown Agents, technical lead of the Complex Procurement Group at PA Consulting and undertook business change at PwC.

Maurice's proudest achievement: Seeing students successfully pass professional exams and improve their project, procurement and management skills.

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Amandeep Singh Virk

Leading International PPP Transaction Advisor, The World Bank

Haryana, India

Amandeep is a leading international PPP transaction advisor with over 21 years of experience. He has played multiple roles in value chain of PPP projects from ‘concept-to-commissioning’ as well as project monitoring support. His expertise covers formulation of PPP regulatory framework; project screening & prioritization; feasibility studies/business cases; PPP transactions through to financial close and capacity building. Amandeep has steered more than 60 PPP projects/programs across different sectors.

Amandeep has consistently excelled at focusing on sustainable development and pro-people interventions through PPPs. He has served as PPP Advisor to various governments and is passionate about the knowledge transfer. Currently, he is working with the World Bank as short term consultant assisting in PPP projects in various countries.

Amandeep's proudest achievement: Leading first mover USD 1.5 billion PPP transaction in East Africa.

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Andre Kruger

Chief Operating Officer, PPP Training Online

Johannesburg, South Africa

I am the CEO and Head Trainer of PPP Training Online. We have, since 2017, trained + 500 infrastructure practitioners using the CP3P qualification. I am an ex-banker with good experience of public sector credit risk, including the structuring and risk evaluation of PPP transactions. I have experience across a wide range of sectors including power, water, transport, health, education, and affordable housing.

PPPTO also provide PPP consulting services and have worked with the World Bank, IFC, USAID, UK Prosperity Fund, UK China Infrastructure Alliance, SIDA, Danish Embassy, and the European Investment Bank.

Andre’s proudest achievement: Experiencing practitioners progressing from being apprehensive about using PPP procurement methodologies to becoming more self-confident about their own capabilities. Many candidates are now able to positively express themselves and to conceptualise, structure, develop and procure bankable transactions.

Richard Foster

Director, Foster Infrastructure

Melbourne, Australia

Richard Foster formed Foster Infrastructure in March 2011 to leverage his skills and experience by providing strategic, commercial and risk management advisory services, and related training services, for project teams and policy makers in the infrastructure and PPP sectors.

Foster Infrastructure’s client base includes a wide range of government agencies, universities, multilateral development banks and inter-governmental organisations.

Richard commenced his career as lawyer, working with a major Australian law firm in Melbourne and Papua New Guinea, before joining the State Government of Victoria, Australia, to take a key role in Partnerships Victoria, the State’s public private partnerships unit.

Richard’s proudest achievement: Building a business that has supported infrastructure professionals around the globe to deliver great outcomes for their communities.

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Sergei Samolis

CEO, PPP Expertise Eurasia

Sergei is the founder and CEO of PPP Expertise Eurasia – an independent provider of consulting and training services in Public-Private Partnerships, Infrastructure and Project Finance. As a certified trainer, he has delivered CP3P courses to over 300 participants.

He also led the effort on translating the complete CP3P Body of Knowledge into Russian, making all 3 exams now available in that language.

PPP Expertise Eurasia is the leading provider of CP3P training in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and West Balkans, working on mandates from IFC, EBRD, ADB, National PPP Centre of Russia, etc.

Previously Sergei had over 15 years of experience in PPP and Project Finance as a banker and consultant. He was Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Financing Sberbank, prior to that - Senior Banker, Head of PPPs with Eurasian Development Bank. He worked on projects in transport, utilities, healthcare, education, water, power etc., including a few international PPP Deals of the Year.

He holds MA in History degree from Moscow State University, MBA from MIRBIS and London Metropolitan University and MSc in Major Programme Management from Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Sergei’s proudest achievement is witnessing the immediate impact that his company’s training programmes make in terms of significantly enhancing the participants’ expertise in PPP, very often boosting their careers, and leading to transformational impact for PPP capacity and project pipeline development in their countries.

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