Utilisateur:De Saint-Laurent

Je puis apporter à Wikipedia sur les domaines suivants :

-Sainte Victoire : j'habite le massif depuis 1976 (à St-Antonin-sur-Bayon) et le connais bien comme randonneur, VTTiste, "planteur", aménageur de restanques ou de sentiers etc. Je participe aussi au travail de plusieurs associations soucieuses de la préservation du massif. J'ai été responsable d'une petite feuille de chou locale ("le petit Antonin") et suis aussi contributeur/animateur du blog http://sainte-victoire.blogspot.fr/. Grâce à nos partenaires, nous disposons d'une importante médiathèque sur le massif, sa flore, sa faune, son histoire, son économie etc. J'ai été aussi l'auteur du livre blanc sur Ste Victoire publié à la suite de l'incendie de 1989 etc.

-économie de la Méditerranée : j'ai été responsable une dizaine d'année du réseau ANIMA, qui travaille au développement économique de la rive sud de la Méditerranée. ANIMA a énormément publié (60 ouvrages au moins), formé (près de 100 séminaires d'une semaine), expérimenté sur l'économie, les investissements, l'entrepreneuriat, l'innovation en Méditerranée. Aujourd'hui, j'essaie surtout de transférer cette expérience vers de plus jeunes (prof à l'Université, soutien de jeunes entreprises, missions ponctuelles etc.)

Pour aller plus vite, je copie-colle ci-dessous mon CV le plus récent, en anglais malheureusement (nous travaillons surtout dans cette langue...) :

Bénédict de Saint-Laurent CV, September 2013

Expert (economic development, finance, entrepreneurship, infrastructure)

LATEST POSITIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS

• July 2010-present: ANIMA Investment Network, Marseille. Scientific Advisor + some private assignments (articles, business angel, member of the Economic & Social Council of Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, borad member of Association pour Sainte Victoire etc.). Examples of achievements: chair of the MedVentures jury, a start-up contest focusing Arab, Israeli and Turkish entreprises (www.medventures.biz); author of a World Bank report on job creating niches in the Mediterranean (June 2011, AIN_MedNiches-FinalReport_24-6-2011.pdf); ANIMA annual report on FDI into the Mediterranean region (April 2011, AIN_FDIPartnerships-2010_Public_Eng_23-5-2011.pdf); directory of Mediterranean investment funds for SMEs (May 2011, ANIMA-MedFunds2011_Abstract_EN.pdf); design and management of the blog of Association pour Sainte Victoire (http://sainte-victoire.blogspot.fr/)

• July 2007-June 2010: ANIMA Investment Network (AIN), Marseille. Executive Director. Mission: creation and development of a multi-country agency aiming at attracting foreign investment and business into the Mediterranean region (www.anima.coop). Achievements: AIN has become a leading institution for the economic development of the region (80 institutional members, 20 countries represented, 15 staffs); AIN coordinated the €12m Invest in Med programme (www.invest-in-med.eu) and other regional projects, operating as an economic promotion agency focused on investment, business partnerships, SMEs and innovation in the Euro-Med. area.

• November 2002-June 2007: Invest in France, Marseille. Programme Co-ordinator of a European economic programme for the Mediterranean. Mission: launch of the EU initiative for developing investment into the Mediterranean (€8m, 12 staffs, a network of around 40 partners, www.animaweb.org). Achievements: Invest in France and its partners implemented an ambitious capacity building programme destined for investment promotion agencies (over 60 training seminars), equipped them with strategic investment intelligence tools and changed the industrial image of the region (via events, surveys, road-shows etc.). Several new investment agencies were created (Cyprus, Turkey, Syria) and investor-friendly reforms were boosted. Over 5 years, FDI landing in the South-Mediterranean region reached around 40-50 billion US$, up from 10 bn in the 2000s.

• February 2001-October 2002: Invest in France, Paris (www.afii.fr). Advisor. Mission: contribution to launching this new public Agency in charge of attracting foreign investment (FDI) into France. Achievements: follow-up of successful investments (e. g. Dixons group, 3,000 jobs, €100m); design of the follow-up system for FDI projects (operational manual, world extranet); contribution to the communication & economic intelligence strategy of the Agency; negotiation of the EU contract resulting in the ANIMA programme.

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

• August 1997-January 2001: Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA www.dbsa.org), Midrand, South-Africa. Investment Banker, Private Sector Group. Mission: launch of a project finance activity for infrastructure in Southern Africa (public-private partnerships, equity investments). Main projects: Johannesburg-Durban toll road ($1.0bn), Mozal aluminum smelter (Mozambique, $1.4bn), airports (Kruger), CBD rehabilitation (Johannesburg, etc.), cellular phone, urban transport, ports & railways. Achievements: within 3 years, DBSA/Private Sector grew up to $400m (from almost 0) in commitments for projects amounting to $1.5bn.

• October 1994-July 1997: Ministry of Communications (Transport), Jakarta, Indonesia (www.dephub.go.id). Special advisor to the Minister. Mission: PPPs, project planning and financing, training, long-term strategy and international co-operation. Launch of BOTs associating private investors. Main projects: urban transport in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung; railway concessioning (Java); satellite-based air traffic control; airports (Java, Bali, Sulawesi); inter-island bridges. Achievements: new government policy on PPPs and launch of major projects ($0.2 to 1bn each).

• 1988-1994: CETE, Aix, France (www.cete-mediterranee.fr), a public consulting firm under the Ministry of Public Works/Transport). Deputy Manager, Infrastructure & Transport (120 staffs). Mission: launch of Europrojets (research unit on advanced transport systems); Manager, EU Prometheus or Drive projects. Achievements: a start-up initially based on two persons, Europrojets rapidly became the main French R&D center on ‘intelligent’ transport systems and successfully tendered on 15 major European projects (i. e. Gaudi, 100 researchers, €20m budget). Several EU standards and spin-offs (eg. www.lepilote.com or www.iciatechnologies.fr) derived from Europrojets.

• 1987-1988 (& 1989-1993): World Bank, Washington (www.worldbank.org), Africa Infrastructure Division. Senior Economist. Mission: appraisal of infrastructure investments in Africa (Zaire, Great Lakes Region); corridor studies in sub-Sahelian Africa: Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo (Sub-Sahelian Africa Transportation Program); prospective studies on the future of Africa. World Bank assignments were continued on a part-time consultant basis until 1993 in three areas: appraisal of underground economy (Zaire, 1990; Philippines, 1992); transit costs for landlocked countries (Zaire, Burkina, Mali); new strategies for the cocoa/coffee sector in Ivory Coast (1993). Achievements: around 15 reports and several projects submitted to the WB Board and later on, financed and followed-up.

• July-December 1985: SCET, Tunis, Tunisia (Société Centrale pour l'Equipement du Territoire, French consultancy and operator, www.scet-tunisie.com). Director, Transport Deregulation Programme (Ministry of Transport/World Bank); industry perspectives; organisation of privatised passenger services; search for investors; design of the deregulation legal framework.

• June 1983- July1985: BCEOM, Rabat, Morocco (French consulting firm, www.bceom.com). Project Manager, Transport Programme, World Bank /Ministry of Transport. Deregulation of land transport organisation, trucking fares, airports, meteorology, etc.

• November 1974- June 1983 (& 1986): CETE, Aix-en-Provence, France, successively: (1974-1980) Chief, Transport and Economics Unit. In charge of the Provence Transportation Master Plan; (1977-8): Consultant, Region of Corsica: restructuring of Corsican Railways, air and sea links with France; (1980-3): launch of a new Energy Group (studies and research on energy planning, prospective, etc.); 1986-7: Executive Manager, in charge of Development and IT; also consultant on expert systems, transportation, new technologies.

• November 1971-November 1974: MATRA, Vélizy, France (Automated transport systems, now www.swe.siemens.com). Consultant in airport engineering, traffic modelling, personal rapid transit systems (VAL: 1st automated metro), transport organisation.

ARMY/ INTERNSHIPS • October 1970-September 1971. Officer, French marines. Sous-lieutenant (Ecole d'Application de l'Arme Blindée Cavalerie), Saumur, France (October-December 1970), assignment as chef de peloton blindé, 43th RBIMA, Offenburg, Germany (January-September 1971).

• February-July 1970: SOGREAH, Grenoble, France (consulting firm in hydraulics, www.sogreah.fr). Engineer (internship), design of a computer model for urban development of the city of Grenoble (French Alps).

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND • Civil Engineer (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, 1967-1970) • Ph. D. in Economics, University of Paris-I Sorbonne, France (1974) • Graduate in Architecture ('2nd cycle'), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (1973) • Languages: French, English (fluent); Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Indonesian (basic) + Latin, Ancient Greek