Mykhailo Titarchuk

deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Scott Walchak

UNECE PPP Program

Christopher Clement Davies,

Head of Legal Team, UNECE PPP Standards Group

Christopher Clement-Davies currently runs his own consulting business as an independent

legal adviser, commercial consultant and investor. He is a qualified barrister and solicitor of

the High Court of England & Wales, and has had a distinguished career at the top of his

profession in the City of London for over 25 years. He has worked at 4 major international

law firms, based in the UK and the USA, and formed and led teams as a partner at three of

them. He was also a director and investment banker at the leading financial institution S.G.

Warburg (now UBS). He has specialised in the energy, infrastructure, regulatory and major

projects sectors throughout his career, acquiring in-depth knowledge and expertise in

virtually all transactional aspects of major projects. He is perhaps best known for his

expertise in PPPs. He has advised governments, IFIs, sponsors, lenders, contractors and

investors in these areas all over the world, in both emerging and developed markets, winning

widespread recognition for his achievements. These have included projects with an aggregate

value of some $75 billion, many of them innovative, high-profile and ‘ground-breaking’

developments in their sectors. He was educated at Oxford University, the University of

Westminster, and the Inns of Court School of Law (Middle Temple).

Caroline NICHOLAS

Senior Legal Officer, International Trade Law Division

(UNCITRAL Secretariat, United Nations Office of Legal

Affairs, Vienna International Centre, Austria

Yuliya Kovaliv

Head of Office of the National Investment

Council under the President of Ukraine

the former First-Deputy Minister of Economic

Development and Trade

Prof. Adam K. Prokopowicz. Ph.D., LL.M.,

President, Institute of Global Innovation, Economics and Logistics (IGIEL); Director, Transatlantic Trade and Politics Research Council; Senior Fellow - US, EU, Latin America Trade Monitoring Group (USA)

Sergiy Savchuk

Head of the State Agency of Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine

Nasser MASSOUD

Founder, Owner & Managing Director of Concept

Realisation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nasser runs the niche advisory practice Concept

Realisation out of Dubai, which serves public and private

clients in the Middle East, North Africa, the CIS & Asia.

Concept Realisation offers strategic advice, structuring,

transaction support and implementation services with a

sector focus on social infrastructure (health, education, housing, public buildings

and tourism & leisure). Expertise includes public private partnerships, joint

ventures and privatisations.

Thomas Keitel

Business Director "Management Consulting &

International Financial Institutions". He is an economist

with 10+ years track in top management consulting,

defining and leading large-scale programs and projects,

delivering organizational transformation and operations

improvement across various industries for multinational

clients. Thomas Keitel combines management and

business know-how with the technology and industry

expertise of Dornier Consulting International, a leading

German consulting company that provides infrastructure

consulting and technical advisory services for PPPs

Olga Revzina

Head of Practice on Infrastructure and PPP Projects in the Continental Europe and CIS, International Law Firm Herbert Smith Freehills CIS LLP

V`yacheslav Negoda

the First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing & Communal Services of Ukraine

Prof. Iryna ZAPATRINA

Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian PPP

Development Support Center, Founder of the

Academy of PPP, doctor of economics

Member of Team of Specialists on PPP of UNECE,

consultant of the World Bank and the EBRD on PPP issues,

co-author of Model PPP Law for CIS countries,

correspondent from Ukraine of EPPPL (European

Procurement and Public Private Partnership) magazine.

Irina was a deputy Minister of housing and communal services of Ukraine

(2007-2010), deputy director of Scientific-research financial institute under the

Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (2005-2007); has 120 scientific and analytical

publications in Ukraine and abroad.

Pedro NEVES

Global Solutions Owner and Founder, Portugal

SDGs Task Force Leader of Business Advisory Board of

United Nation Economic Commission for Europe

MBA Professor at ESAI. MBA Professor on Urban

Development Strategy, Real Estate Business

Development, Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures,

founder of the first MBA on Urban Renewal

Responsible for originating and managing over 10 billion USD in infrastructure

asset deals in over 60 countries in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.

Eva BUFI

General Manager of Ardana Consultans, Spain

The former Executive director UNECE International

Center of Competence “PPP for Cities”

Maria Galindo

DOXA Innova & Smart

Josef Ramon Ferrer former director Smart Cities Barcelona

Anna Nesterenko deputy head of Territory Development Agency,

deputy director of the Association “Smart and Sustainable Cities of Ukraine”

Nadiya Kaznacheyeva

deputy Minister of infrastructure of Ukraine

Eric Robins

Director, Claret Consulting (Ukraine)

Taras Boychuk

Project office on PPPs under the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine

Andriy Sokolov, Ph.D,

acting Director, Kherson Sea Port

2007-2015 Project manager of Informall BG (maritime consulting company in Black Sea).

2015 Advisor to the First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine – for maritime industry and PPP projects. Since 2016 acting director of Kherson Sea Commercial port (SOE)

Dr. Andriy DEMCHUK

Director of Department for Attracting Investments,

Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of

Ukraine

Ph.D from University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and

Diploma in Mathematics from Lviv State University. 15

years of professional experience in investment attraction,

private banking, hedge funds’ risk management and financial product design.

5 years of academic experience – teaching financial theory and financial

derivative instruments at University of Zurich and University of Lausanne.

Iryna NOVIKOVA

Head of PPP Unit, Department for Attracting

Investments,

Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Master of Law degree (The Ivan Franko National University

of Lviv). Last four years heads the PPP Unit and participates

in the drafting of legislation on PPP in Ukraine, supported

World Bank to make an assessment «Public-Private Partnerships in the context

of public Investment Management in Ukraine».

Aliona Babak

Member of Parliament of Ukraine, deputy Head of the Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine on construction, urban construction and housing and communal services

Tianyi WANG

Executive Director and Chairman of China

Everbright Water limited and Executive

Director and General Manager of China

Everbright International Limited, China, PhD,

professor

Former President of Shandong Academy of

Science, and Deputy Mayor of Jinan Capital City of

Shandong Province. He has been Professor and

Vice President of Yantai University, China. He was

also a member of HKTDC Mainland Business

Advisory Committee, 2012—2016.

Co-Director of the Centre for PPP, Tsinghua University, and Member of the

Advisory Committee of China Business Research Center of National University of

Singapore. Holds a Doctorate’s degree in Economics, a Master’s degree in

Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics from Tsinghua University.

He had pursued advanced studies at Harvard University.

Volodymyr Goncharuk

deputy Mayor of Khmelnitsky City

Andrii Moskalyk

Senior Associate, Baker McKenzie

Andrii Moskalyk focuses on energy, oil & gas and

infrastructure, as well as M&A projects in Ukraine,

including large investments and development

initiatives. He has experience of working on a number

of high profile projects involving both private and

state-owned energy foreign and Ukrainian companies,

including Chevron, Shell, Naftogaz, Ukrenergo and Energoatom. Prior to joining

Baker McKenzie, Andrii was employed by the Kyiv office of Clifford Chance for

six years and worked in both the Kyiv and London offices.

Denis Chernyshov

deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine

Samuel Soberano

Servicios Corporativos, Mexico

Tetiana Bessarab

Bessarab and Partners Attorneys at Law, member of UNECE Business Advisory Board

Yuliya Gureyeva

projects manager, GO “Platform of PPP Development”