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Design and appraisal of the €1.08bn Justice for Sustainable Urban Transformation programme: a resilient, climate-smart district consolidating Romania’s justice institutions on a regenerated Bucharest brownfield site.

• Strategy and governance — Concept and component design, KPIs, Theory of Change, governance arrangements and long-term urban strategy.
• Financial and economic analysis — NPV, ERR and sensitivity testing, including property-value uplift, fiscal impacts and private-capital participation.
• Implementation readiness — Disbursement planning, procurement structuring, resilience metrics and EU climate alignment.

Analysis of how planned corridor investment could support private sector growth, jobs and opportunity in the secondary cities of Kankan, Mamou, Boké and Nzérékoré.

• Economic and spatial modelling — Examined road investment, lower trade and border friction, wages and market access.
• Local evidence — Interviews with firms and local governments on feeder roads, cold chains and serviced land.
• Key finding — Modelled wage gains of 2.1% from roads alone and over 8% with trade facilitation and additional policy levers.

Programme design, analysis and evaluation support to strengthen Argentina’s innovation ecosystem and the route from research to commercialisation.

• Economic rationale — Analysed commercialisation barriers, market failures and the case for public investment.
• Results frameworks — Focused measurement on commercialisation, firm performance and innovation adoption.
• Data and stakeholders — Firm-level reporting designed for agencies, universities and industry.

Economic analysis for the Women Entrepreneurship Development and Access to Finance Program-for-Results (PforR), supporting Benin’s SME strategy.

• Costs and benefits — NPV, IRR, benefit-cost ratio and benefits not readily quantified.
• Appraisal models — Detailed cost-benefit assumptions for the Project Appraisal Document annex and PforR assessment.
• Context and sensitivity — Only 3.4% of women-managed firms could access bank loans; downside scenarios helped inform programme design.

Technical review of the Implementation Completion and Results Report for a tourism competitiveness project in Grenada, Saint Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

• Technical consistency — Reviewed the draft ICR and annexes against World Bank guidance.
• Results and ratings — Strengthened the results narrative and rating justifications.
• Future operations — Refined lessons for tourism and wider OECS collaboration.

A two-phase engagement from the bid to operate Puerto Rico’s electricity grid to the regulatory stand-up of the operator, LUMA Energy.

• Bid strategy — Led structuring, messaging and bid content, coordinating three companies and dozens of specialists.
• Outcome — The bid resulted in a US$16bn award to the client consortium.
• Regulatory stand-up — Helped complete the new operator’s regulatory documentation and planned-operations overview.

Evidence, analysis and territorial economic strategy for a World Bank advisory and analytics programme on economic development across Lesotho’s regions.

• In-country evidence — Collected information on the ground.
• Analysis — Assessed spatial, climate and disaster-risk dimensions.
• Strategy — Principal contribution to the World Bank TDASA report and its territorial recommendations.

Assessment of urban government capacity and fiscal arrangements to strengthen city finance in the South Sudan Urbanization Review.

• Government capacity — Led the capacity assessment through multiple country missions.
• Fiscal transfers — Evaluated the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system.
• Own-source revenue — Developed recommendations to increase city-level revenue; also contributed to climate and disaster-risk chapters.

Private sector analysis and an operational framework supporting regional trade integration under AfCFTA, focusing on Kenya and Ethiopia alongside Djibouti, Somalia and South Sudan.

• Private sector diagnostics — Compared business maturity, finance and market constraints.
• Dialogue — Brought public and private stakeholders together on investment opportunities.
• Trade facilitation — Identified target value chains and actionable projects for the initiative’s roadmap.

Economic and financial appraisal supporting successive OPEC Fund (OFID) financings alongside the World Bank’s Integrated Growth Poles and Corridors programme.

• OFID2 — ERR, NPV and sensitivity analysis for energy and rural roads; US$15m financing alongside the World Bank’s US$70m PIC2.2.
• OFID3-PIC3 — Appraisal of clean cooking, blue carbon, sustainable energy and strategic infrastructure.
• Financing analysis — Estimated ERR, FIRR and NPV and prepared methodology and donor submission material.

Design of a US$100m IDA-financed programme supporting smallholders and enterprises in the Zambezi Valley and Nacala Corridor.

• Project targeting — Selected growth poles and priority infrastructure using spatial analysis and stakeholder input.
• Infrastructure-plus — Paired roads and water supply with a US$24m catalytic matching fund for agribusiness.
• Appraisal — Modelled projected economic rates of return of 25% for Zambezi Valley and 19% for Nacala.

Rapid policy design for compensation for property-value losses along the £42bn HS2 railway route.

• Policy design — Developed a workable compensation mechanism within six weeks.
• Evaluation — Used property data to assess fairness, costs and implementation.
• Outcome — The Homeowner Payment policy was adopted, with reported savings exceeding £1bn.

Economic analysis that shaped the international aviation emissions offsetting mechanism under CORSIA.

• Emissions modelling — Projected aviation emissions and carbon-offset requirements.
• Mechanism design — Developed the economic analysis underpinning the scheme.
• Negotiation support — Briefed the UK negotiating team for international discussions; the proposed structure was accepted as the basis for CORSIA.

Development and indicative financing preparation for a proposed US$400m gas-fired power station in Ghana.

• Government engagement — Obtained an expression of interest and project memorandum of understanding.
• Technology — Engaged major turbine manufacturers.
• Indicative finance — India Exim Bank debt term sheet for up to US$340m (85%), subject to indicative terms.

Development of a proposed 100 MW solar programme, beginning with a 15 MW pilot and planned battery storage.

• Site and grid — Assessed three potential sites near Port Loko and a connection to the 225 kV substation.
• Government support — Secured a Ministry of Energy MOU, allocated land and a commitment to turnkey development.
• Project preparation — Developed pre-feasibility and commercial analysis and approached potential debt and equity partners.

Phased 45 MW solar and 56 MW hydropower development in Madagascar, with an estimated programme value of US$142m.

• Programme design — Solar phases of 20 MW and 25 MW; hydro phases of 31 MW and 25 MW.
• Contracts — Signed a PPA and concession agreement backed by a Ministry of Finance sovereign guarantee.
• Financing preparation — Coordinated lenders, manufacturers, legal advisers and political-risk insurance partners.

Development of a proposed 15 MW solar photovoltaic project using a captive-customer model.

• Site and offtake — Identified land, grid connection and prospective factory customers.
• Government engagement — Developed the government-side project structure.
• Financing — Secured an agreement in principle for lending from Ecobank.

Proposed battery storage pilot at a quarry site that reached the approval stage before the government cancelled it.

• Technical design — Completed feasibility and design studies with battery suppliers lined up.
• Government and community — Worked through planning with stakeholders and proposed jobs, training, EV charging and restoration of the quarry as a park.
• Financing — Obtained a credit letter from Bank of China; the project was cancelled before approval.