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Bruno Valfrey
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Bruno Valfrey holds an engineering degree and an MPhil in science. He has been a consultant with the Hydroconseil team since 1995. He primarily specialises in basic public services – drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, and solid waste. He has also worked on integrated water resources management, irrigation, energy and climate change adaptation issues. Bruno has carried out numerous studies in the water sector in the broadest sense of the term: technical studies, institutional and socio-economic feasibility, M&E, case studies, action research, workshop facilitation, management model development, cross-sector studies, and lesson-learning. He also studied and monitored the construction of water supply and sanitation facilities in some 15 African and Latin American countries. In addition to his technical expertise, he is a recognized water and sanitation sector, institutional, and economic specialist. He has been involved in public policy development in more than a dozen countries and in formulating and evaluating more than 60 projects and programmes (most often as team leader). He regularly leads consultation workshops with water and sanitation sector stakeholders and contributes to sector monitoring by helping to draft national and international reports. He is also a lecturer and trainer, and has published some thirty articles and books. Since 2010, he has been the manager of Hydroconseil, of which he is currently the chairman. He is also co-founder of Urbaconsulting. |
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Cédric Estienne
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Cedric Estienne graduated from the national engineering school of “Arts et Métiers” in Paris. He has 28 years’ experience of working on the detailed design, tendering and works supervision of water supply systems and sanitation facilities.In addition to his technical urban and rural water supply expertise, he has extensive sanitation experience (wastewater and solid waste). Consequently, he often works as the team leader or technical expert providing consulting services to improve public services, in particular through private sector participation (concession, lease contracts, PPP). Cedric has also been involved a number of institutional studies on water and sanitation, including as the lead author of public policies in 10 countries.Throughout his career, Cedric has regularly provided capacity-building services, including for national institutions, sector stakeholders, local authorities, formal and informal private operators, and user associations. He has also worked on the preparation of master plans and management plans for various services (waste, drainage, sanitation). Cedric has provided consultancy services for OBA schemes (Output-Based Aid) to increase the number of connections to basic services in major cities such as Yaoundé and Douala (water), Casablanca (water and sanitation), Monrovia (electricity).He has been the Managing Director of Hydroconseil since 2016. He is also one of the co-founders of Urbaconsulting. |
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Audrey Crocker
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Audrey Crocker has a dual degree in urban planning and urban utilities management. Her main areas of expertise are urban policies, urban services design and management (water, sanitation, waste), as well as institutional strengthening and coaching for public authorities.Audrey joined Hydroconseil in 2010. She uses her expertise to carry out feasibility studies and conduct programme evaluations. For a number of years, she coordinated a monitoring and evaluation project for a government water, hygiene and sanitation programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo and led (for 8 months) the process to build the urban management capacities of Bangui city council. More recently, Audrey has been in charge of developing the socio-economic and urban components of various sanitation, water and waste management sector master plans.Her understanding of the city, urban planning documents and regional growth strategies enables her to assess the impact these elements may have on service extensions. Finally, her knowledge of evaluation mechanisms (theory of change, most significant change method, OECD criteria, etc.) provide her with a critical and contextualised overview of the programmes, projects and approaches implemented, particularly local development and capacity-building projects.Audrey has been a member of the Hydroconseil and Urbaconsulting Executive Committee since 2015 and has been the Director of Urbaconsulting since 2017. |
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Karim Barro
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Karim Barro is a socio-economist, who graduated from the Pan-African Institute for Development (IPD/AC) in Douala, Cameroon in 1994. He is currently working as team leader on the assignment to provide technical assistance to the project owner of the Eastern region drinking water supply project (PAEP-East) in Burkina Faso, a project co-financed by AFD and the Burkinabe government.Karim has been working on village and semi-urban water systems for more than 30 years. After gaining initial experience working as a facilitator, he has spent the last 15 years taking on more senior roles in a range of water supply projects. In addition to his socio-economic background, he has acquired sound experience of the technical aspects of water and sanitation, as well as expertise in the processes involved in setting up management models and capacity-building for the administration, local authorities, user associations and private operators.Karim has worked as team leader on IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activities and carried out expert assignments on around fifteen major programmes in the sub-region, including in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad, working on projects financed by the Danish development agency, AFD, the European Union, KFW (German development agency) and WADB (the West African Development Bank). |
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Yannick Pradelles
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Yannick Pradelles is a public health doctor with over 33 years’ experience of assisting contracting authorities working within the water supply, hygiene and sanitation sectors. Yannick’s professional experience has been gained mainly in west African countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Benin, Niger, Mauritania), working for a French NGO (EAST), international consulting firms (NIRAS, COWI, Ecopsis and Hydroconseil) and as an independent consultant.Yannick has three key areas of expertise: social intermediation within water supply and sanitation projects (including CLTS and sanitation marketing); setting up project monitoring and evaluation systems; and institutional support. Yannick has developed this expertise by carrying out a range of activities including formulating, evaluating and implementing WASH projects and conducting studies. He has extensive experience of working as a resident technical assistant, providing contracting authority support to government agencies (2 years in Mali, 1 year in Mauritania and 7 years in Burkina Faso) and to local authorities (3 years in Burkina Faso and 2 years in Guinea). Over the course of his career, Yannick has developed specific skills in the fields of public finance management and sector-wide approachesYannick joined the Hydroconseil team in 2014. Based in Nouakchott, he is currently providing technical assistance to the National Directorate of Sanitation as part of the ‘5 wilayas’ program to improve access to water supply and sanitation in 5 of the country’s regions (a project jointly funded by the European Union and French Agency for Development). |
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François Touchais
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François Touchais has over 22 years of environmental law and water legislation experience. He has worked on a range of projects that focused on water resources, flooding, drought, drinking water and sanitation, waste, energy, climate change adaptation, coastal zones, and urbanism. |
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Charlotte Kalinowski
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Charlotte Kalinowski is a public law and political science graduate specialising in the design and management of public services, mainly water, sanitation and solid waste. She joined Hydroconseil in 2015 after having spent several years working for the largest sanitation authority in Europe (SIAAP).Over the course of her 19 year career, Charlotte has conducted national sector studies, defined national policies and strategies, and led the implementation of a large number of projects to structure sanitation services (technical, institutional, financial and socio-economic feasibility studies; project preparation, monitoring and evaluation; research; facilitating consultation workshops; developing concession contracts, etc.). She has also provided technical assistance to project owners on structuring and implementing urban development projects.She has extensive experience of the economic and institutional issues specific to the water, sanitation and waste sectors, both in large and small cities and in rural areas. Charlotte has worked in Africa, the Middle East and south-east Asia. She is currently based in Lebanon where she coordinates Hydroconseil and Urbaconsulting activities. |
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Paul Evans
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| Paul Evans is a chartered hydrogeologist with broad project management and leadership experience across the development, humanitarian, and private sectors. He is experienced in leading sustainability studies (including saline intrusion), environmental impact assessments for public groundwater supplies and borehole performance evaluation. He has experience in the assessment and remediation of groundwater contamination in rural and urban environments and conducting groundwater impact assessments related to infrastructure development. Paul’s experience includes developing feasibility assessments for new groundwater supplies, from the design of the initial hydrogeological exploration phase through to operational commissioning and operations management. He is experienced in the preparation and review of technical reports, the development and review of groundwater models and is proficient in GIS and other standard industry software. He has extensive field experience including leading reconnaissance visits, geophysical studies, borehole drilling supervision and pump testing. Paul has held advisory positions in the humanitarian WASH sector and has been involved in the design, management and evaluation of water and sanitation infrastructure projects, including stakeholder and government engagement. | |
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Aude Lazzarini
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As an industrial environmental engineering graduate who specialised in water supply and sanitation, Aude began her career working as an operations engineer in the drinking water production plants of SEDIF, France’s largest public drinking water utility and leading decentralised cooperation contributor to universal access to drinking water. |
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Jérémie Hédoin
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Jérémie Hedoin has a degree in urban and rural water management and a Master’s in hydrogeology. Upon completion of his studies, he spent 7 years working on water supply and sanitation projects in Africa. Prior to joining Hydroconseil in 2014, he worked for a number of NGOs (TR Monde, CCFD, APDA, and HSF) in Mali, Benin and Ethiopia on projects in rural and semi-rural areas. Through implementing projects, Jérémie has gained technical support, project coordination and evaluation expertise. He also worked as project manager from 2017-2019 on a two-year technical assistance project in the Comoros, setting up effective public water supply services. He has experience of working in both urban and rural areas on water resource management assignments and conducting environmental and social impact assessments, as well as of working on hydrogeology projects, coastal water table vulnerability studies, IWRM (particularly transboundary water management), and water and sanitation projects, etc. Jérémie has worked in around a dozen countries in Africa and Latin America and is able to work in three languages, English, Spanish and French. He has also worked on developing a range of GIS and mapping tools. |
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Silvère Jarrot
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Silvère JARROT is a graduate of the Institut d'Aménagement Régional in Aix-en-Provence (France). He specializes in the urban development of precarious neighborhoods, the definition and implementation for intervention in urban's crisis context. He has worked as a project manager in Africa (Djibouti, Cameroon), the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen), Latin America (Honduras, Mexico) and the Caribbean region (Haiti) with institutional, international and humanitarian actors.As such, he has extensive experience to use and develop project management tools, participative approach and consultation's mechanisms, post-disaster reconstruction strategies and the improvement of precarious neighborhoods.In addition, Silvère JARROT participated in applied research activities on informal settlements and on the role of residents in the production and management of these territories. He is the author of several articles on citizen participation in post-disaster reconstruction projects.Since 2014, he has been working with institutional actors, donors, universities and international organizations. Recently, he carried out the project for the Urban Plan of Hinche (Haiti), a methodological guide for Mexican municipalities affected by an earthquake (Mexico), and a support for the definition of an urban development program for the city of Port au Prince. He has also participated in numerous evaluations of humanitarian projects in urban contexts. |
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Emma Cheurfa
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Emma has a Master’s 2 degree in International Political Economy (University of Grenoble) and 14 years' experience of conducting economic analyses and managing projects in the basic services (drinking water, hygiene) and public health sectors (education and health promotion, social protection).Before joining Hydroconseil in 2016, Emma spent two-and-a-half years working in the diplomatic service, in the French embassies in Pakistan and Panama, and developed the ability to work effectively with all types of stakeholder (private, public, elected officials, associations, users). She also worked in the health and social protection sector for 5 years, where she acquired extensive prevention, behaviour change, service development and capacity-building expertise.Pro-active and good communicator, Emma is able to participate in both strategic discussions and practical implementation activities in the field.Since joining Hydroconseil, she has specialised in the economic and financial analysis of drinking water, sanitation and energy projects and services. She works in particular on the financial |
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Benoit Paillet
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Benoit Paillet is an engineer who specialises in assessing, designing and monitoring the construction of water supply and sanitation systems. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Water Engineering in 2005, he applied and honed his knowledge and skills working for consulting firms, public water supply and sanitation utilities and international NGOs in Europe, Asia and Africa. Through his work preparing 46 master plans, Benoit developed an in-depth understanding of the practical challenges of rural and urban water supply and sanitation. In his subsequent position as head of a department managing an annual €7.5 million budget for improving water supply and sanitation networks, he worked with his team on planning, designing and implementing technical solutions to address these challenges. With a specific interest in optimising water supply network functionality, he has also overseen a range of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and pressure management programmes. In addition to speaking French and English, Benoit is fluent in Portuguese, which he learnt while working in East Timor, Mozambique and Portugal.
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Remy Berhonde
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| Rémy Berhonde has a Master's and bachelor’s engineering degree, both in water and the environment, as well as an ENGEES university degree in applied geomatics for the water sector, which he completed in 2019. He began his professional career in the renewable energy sector (hydroelectricity, wind and solar power). Then, in 2014, he moved abroad and spent the next 8 years working as Team Leader, Deputy Director or Water and Sanitation Technical Coordinator for international NGOs providing development aid (Madagascar, Vietnam, Senegal) and various humanitarian emergency responses (Iraq, Niger and Central African Republic). His areas of expertise mainly include sector strategy development, technical studies, evaluations, institutional support, and technical assistance. Rémy has also worked as a local authority engineer in the water department of Lyon city council as part of a project to develop new management procedures for sanitation systems, promote nature-based solutions and update master plans. Rémy joined the Hydroconseil team at the beginning of 2022 to provide specific water supply, sanitation and energy expertise, and apply his experience of working on severe humanitarian emergencies. | |
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Camilo Avendano
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Ignacio Magnani
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Ignacio holds a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires. He worked in Argentina for 4 years as an engineer in a range of fields including transport planning, construction site management, water supply, sanitation and stormwater drainage planning and design, and in both the private and the public sector. Over the course of these 4 years, he gained a broad understanding of engineering through its different stages, holding positions in planning, design, and construction, and managing a port construction site where he led a large taskforce. In his last position, he worked as a junior water supply / sanitation engineer designing water, sanitation and stormwater drainage for around ten small cities in two regions of Argentina. |
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Marie Morel
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A graduate of CERDI (International Development Research Centre) in Clermont-Ferrand (France), Marie specializes in development economics and project analysis. This selective master's degree provided her with the skills required to apply project management and analysis tools and applied research methodologies to development economics-related issues. Marie began her career working in a Colombian NGO, which enabled her to quickly familiarize herself with the Latin American context. She subsequently joined Hydroconseil, where she has been applying her socio-economic, institutional and statistical expertise to water and sanitation access improvement projects since 2019. Marie also specializes in conducting international-level evaluations of water, sanitation and hygiene projects/programmes. Having worked on evaluations for NGOs, as well as for large development agencies (UNESCO, UNICEF, AFD), she has experience of using a range of evaluation approaches, methodologies and tools, which she is able to adapt to a wide range of fields of study and contexts.Since July 2021, Marie has been based in Colombia, where she is working with Nexsom, notably providing technical assistance to AFD on water and risk management as part of the Euroclima+ programme being implemented across Latin America and the Caribbean. This is enabling her to build in-depth knowledge of the water and sanitation sector in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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Antoine Guerry-Grivaud
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Antoine Guerry-Grivaud is a water engineer who has five years’ experience of working for consulting firms. He has notably worked on producing environmental studies for land use planning and risk management, and on aquatic environment management and ambient air quality monitoring projects.A multidisciplinary engineer, Antoine has regularly conducted fieldwork as both assignment supervisor and technical expert. He has worked for public and private operators, notably in Vietnam and Réunion Island.Antoine is currently carrying out studies to produce water supply master plans for thirteen provincial centres in Togo. |
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Lise-Ella Llanso
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| After graduating with a degree in political science, Lise-Ella continued her studies at Sciences Po Rennes - ENS Rennes, completing a Master's degree in Urban Services Engineering in Networks (ISUR), specialising in improving access to essential services in developing countries. Lise-Ella has been working as a water, sanitation and solid waste specialist and project manager since 2019. She has worked on a range of socio-economic studies, not only developing tools and methodologies, but also delivering training and analysing the qualitative and quantitative data collected. She has acquired an in-depth knowledge of participatory social engineering methods and is used to working with communities and informal sectors to develop access to essential services. Using her knowledge of public policies, she also conducts institutional and organisational assessments for local institutions (ministries, cities, operators, etc.). Finally, Lise-Ella adopts an inclusive and resilient development approach to each of the projects in which she is involved.Her project experience has led her to specialise in the solid waste sector, conducting waste characterisation studies (Caribbean and West Africa), supporting the creation or extension of pre-collection services in urban areas (Central Africa) and sharing lessons learned on women's practices in waste prevention, management and recovery (Maghreb). | |
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Lola Bonilla
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With a dual Master's degree in Economics and Networked Urban Services Engineering (from IEP Rennes), Lola specialises in essential urban networks, project and business management. Lola graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the Rennes 1 University’s Economic Sciences Faculty, where she acquired robust statistics, econometrics and survey analysis skills. As part of her Master's degree in project management, she was subsequently able to assist companies and projects using economic analysis tools and methods. For her second master's degree at the IEP in Rennes, she specialised in access to housing and essential services such as energy, water, sanitation, waste and mobility in developing countries. During this year of study, she prepared an expert report on drinking water, rainwater and sanitation in Conakry (Guinea).Within Hydroconseil, she is working as a junior energy expert. She has been involved in various projects, and has worked on preparing calls for tender and launching the group's new energy brand. Lola has also helped develop the report on rural and semi-urban households’ willingness-to-pay for the electricity service in Haiti. |
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Garance Berger
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With a Master's degree in development economics from the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), Garance specialises in project analysis and management in official development assistance. Garance's course enables her to work in the socio-economic development sector in developing countries. Garance is developing her skills in project management and analysis, and enriching her in-depth knowledge of the economic, social, political and environmental issues involved in development. She combines these skills with a mastery of quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and surveys. Her experience as a WO.MEN.STRUATION project manager in the Afric'Avenir association made her aware of the difficulties of access to water and hygiene infrastructures in developing countries. She joined Hydroconseil in 2023, where she made an effective contribution to setting up and managing projects to provide access to essential public services, as well as providing expertise in economic and institutional analysis. She took part in the institutional diagnosis of the NSWMA in Jamaica and developed a comparative institutional analysis of the different ways in which public water and sanitation services are structured in the countries of the Sahel region. |
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Justine Segretain
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| Justine Mounet Segretain is an international communication and social project development specialist. A graduate of Sciences Po Lyon, where she studied Communication and Culture, and of the Aix-Marseille Institute of International Humanitarian Studies (NOHA network), where she studied Crisis Management and Human Development, Justine has spent the last fifteen years working in the public sector (European development cooperation, United Nations), and for non-governmental organisations and ethical companies all over the world. After having spent several years in UNICEF's communication teams, Justine created and managed Sango, the first 100% ethical communication agency in Madagascar, which now has around thirty employees and branches in more than 10 countries. Justine thus spearheaded the development of responsible communication on sectors that included water, hygiene and sanitation, health and nutrition, education, societal transition, urban planning, housing and waste management, access to energy and socio-economic development. With professional experience gained working in 6 countries on 3 continents for more than 70 organisations and programmes, Justine joined the Global Development team in 2023 as Head of Sales and Communication. Justine is utilizing both her business development and communication skills to further the development objectives of a group that is rapidly expanding, both thematically and geographically. | |
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Carine Langlade-Philippe
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Carine is an agricultural engineer, who specialises in rural engineering and has a degree in agricultural hydraulics and climatology. Carine has worked in both France and Haiti. She has more than 25 years’ experience of managing and leading projects on rural development, support for agricultural organisations and associations, urban and rural infrastructure construction, including flood risk prevention projects, and support for local authorities. After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, through her position as Team Leader, she contributed to the strategic orientation of an NGO by financing and accompanying some thirty recovery and reconstruction projects led by local stakeholders. For 6 years, Carine oversaw the technical management of Canadian and Haitian consulting firms, covering all areas of engineering, as well as environmental and social impact assessments. She worked on a range of assignments providing technical assistance to contracting authorities during the public contract procurement, monitoring and auditing phases of infrastructure projects. Between 2019 and 2021, Carine worked within a consortium of 5 partners as the national coordinator of a programme to strengthen decentralisation in Haiti, where she developed a robust set of cross-cutting project management skills in various disciplines. In 2022, Carine joined the Global Development group to help coordinate the Innovation, Research and Knowledge Department and share her experience with the project managers working in the Commercial and Communication Department. |
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Nicolas Krasser
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Originally from Argentina, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Mar del Plata, Nicolas holds a Master’s degree in International Trade & Intercultural Management from the University of Avignon. He has several years of professional experience gained working in various sectors (insurance, chamber of commerce, international logistics, etc.), which have enabled him to develop various skills, including adaptability, versatility and autonomy. As a result of his time spent studying in Europe (France and Germany), Nicolas has also been able to perfect his intercultural and linguistic skills and is fluent in Spanish, French, English, German and Italian. In order to further progress in international trade and development, he joined Hydroconseil’s business development department at the beginning of 2020 as part of an internship for his study programme (Masters 2). His role within the team is twofold: to enhance the strategic development of the company in Latin America and to help develop internal tools to support Hydroconseil’s business development activities. |
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Christine Bernadet
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Christine Bernadet holds a DECF (Diploma of Accounting and Finance). After several years working in Paris as the head of Accounts in the press sector, she joined KPMG to work on auditing and accounting assignments. Her varied experience, and particularly the experience she gained in her last job working in a company specializing in the water and sanitation sector, enables her to effectively manage human resources, accounting, financial, fiscal and legal issues. Christine joined Hydroconseil in 2015 to manage the administrative and financial team. |
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Christelle Marchand
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Christelle Marchand joined our team in February, 2024 in order to support the accounting department. |
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Marion Moscatello
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Marion holds a degree in accounting and management. Her experience in an accounting firm for 4 years allowed her to join the team in 2019 for a replacement in the position of accountant. Warm-hearted and versatile, she joined Hydroconseil in 2020 as an administrative and commercial assistant.
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