Key qualifications:

Linkages between environment and development (20 years as a free-lance consultant in this area); excellent understanding of environmental and climate change and its implications for developing countries.

Development cooperation (environment, rural development, higher education and scientific research).

Project and programme identification and formulation (contribution to the preparation of more than 60 projects or programmes).

Evaluation work (more than 30 evaluations, including complex reviews as team leader).

Methods for Project Cycle Management (Logical Framework Approach, Identification, Formulation, Evaluation, Indicators).

Approaches for environmental mainstreaming and on the linkage between environment (including climate change) and development.

Sustainable management of natural resources, biodiversity, protected areas, forestry (more than 60 actions linked with biodiversity or forests), climate change (with a focus on adaptation).

Environmental assessment (EIA-Environmental Impact Assessment and SEA-Strategic Environmental Assessment): 40 environmental assessments and several assignments on environmental assessment processes.