Key Skills and Expertise

Bringing over 30 years of experience in development and engineering projects, the expert specializes in highway design management and supervision. Responsibilities have included leading multidisciplinary teams in complex projects across Asia and Africa, with a focus on infrastructure, procurement, and contract management. Career highlights include managing asset preservation projects and providing procurement assistance, with extensive experience in FIDIC contracts and adherence to international best practices.

Project Experience and Donor Exposure

Worked across diverse projects involving collaboration with international donors such as the World Bank, USAID, UNOPS, and SIDA. The expert has provided technical assistance, project implementation, and capacity building in infrastructure, particularly roads and bridges. These projects were conducted on both national and regional scales in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos, Philippines, and Tanzania.

Sectors and Geographic Focus

With a background in sectors such as procurement, roads and bridges, civil engineering, and transport, the expert has held leadership roles like Team Leader and Project Manager. Their cross-cutting expertise includes infrastructure for rural development and capacity building. The geographic scope of their work spans regional and country-specific projects in Asia and Africa, focusing on planning, project management, and contract administration. Extensive geographic experience includes significant assignments in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Vietnam, developing deep familiarity with local governance and regional development issues.

Languages and Education

The expert is a native Swedish speaker and is fluent in English, having used these languages extensively in international projects and multilingual teams. They also possess good proficiency in Norwegian and Danish, fair proficiency in German and Tagalog, and basic skills in Swahili, Lao, Thai, and Bengali, facilitating effective communication in diverse professional settings. The expert holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Institute of Technology Örebro, Sweden, completed in 1970. Additionally, they obtained a Post Graduate Degree in General and Business Administration from the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 1978, and pursued Post Graduate Study through Distance MBA Courses at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, from 1990 to 1992.