ADVISOR - ENERGY  (2013)

• Provided strategic and operational advice to the Director (Energy), Energy Anchor on corporate policies, regional operations, and the World Bank-UN joint initiative Sustainable Energy for All.

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SECTOR LEADER, SOUTH-EAST EUROPE (2008 - 2013)

• Provided policy advice to the Bank’s senior management, and strategic advice to clients.

• Supervised the World Bank’s energy and transport portfolio in six countries in South East Europe.

• Coordinated with the European Commission, bilateral donors (US Agency for International Development, UK’s Department for International Development), European Banks (EBRD, EIB, KfW, and the Export Credit Agencies), and Japanese  agency JAICA for power sector investments.

• Supervised privatization of electricity distribution in Albania and Kosovo.

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LEAD ENERGY SPECIALIST, EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC (2005 - 2008)

• Managed 1,100 MW electricity export hydroelectric project (Nam Theun 2) developed by a private sector consortium financed by nine multilaterals and sixteen commercial banks and supported by partial risk guarantees issued by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.

• Led extensive co-ordination across multiple country clients, IFIs (ADB, EIB, KfW, AfD, Coface, Proparco), periodic briefings to the Bank’s Board of Directors, and consultations with local and international NGOs.

• The Project included supervision of resettlement of more than 6000 indigenous people, mitigating impacts on more than 70,000 people downstream, conservation of about 4,200 square kilometers of bio-diversity area of international significance, about 100 kilometers of project roads, and complementary projects in rural electrification and rural development.

• Led the Bank’s energy program in Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and collaborated with Asian Development Bank China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar for advancing a regional power market.

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SR. FINANCIAL ANALYST, EUROPE AND Central Asia (2002 - 2005)

• Led projects in a post-conflict area (Kosovo); transition-economy countries (Serbia and Montenegro); regional electricity market program for Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo including investments in cross-border transmission links.

• Led the energy sector reconstruction program in Kosovo which resulted in extensive support from the European Agency for Reconstruction and other donors (DFID, CIDA, USAID, KfW, Cooperazione Italiana).

• Designed and implemented an energy efficiency program in District Heating in Serbia that was quoted by the World Bank President as a best practice.

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SR. FINANCIAL ANALYST, South Asia (1993 - 2002)

• Played a key role in the Bank’s India power sector program to develop Bank’s strategy, formulate policy advice in the context of rapidly changing political economy and early stages of economic liberalization in India, re-engineer Bank’s existing portfolio and new lending, and develop a new business approach.

• Steered the reform process in six states through complex dynamics of center-state politics, enactment of new state-level legal frameworks; creation and institutional development of state regulatory commissions; and privatization of distribution. Led policy dialogue with political leaders, bureaucrats, opinion makers, NGOs, and the media. 

• Supervised several large projects: four hydro projects (Orissa, Karnataka, Kerala), two national utilities (NTPC, Powergrid) and four power system reform and restructuring projects (Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh).