Consulting & assignments

Energy policy, power sector governance and international cooperation — in France and internationally.

I work with institutions, operators, local governments and consultancies on energy policy, power sector governance and international cooperation. Short and medium-length assignments, in France and internationally, with one simple principle: the work starts from the client's files, not from a catalogue.

Types of assignments

Sector diagnostics and framing notes

Electricity markets and grids, regulation, concessions, sector reforms. Institutional interviews, documentary and regulatory analysis, international comparisons, organisational recommendations.

Example deliverables: sector framing note, multi-criteria comparative analysis, regulatory mapping, organisational recommendations for a regulator or ministry.

Capacity building and training design

Catalogues, career-track curricula and modules for executives, elected officials and staff, from initial diagnosis to delivery.

Recent example: a full training catalogue of 23 modules and 6 career tracks designed for a public agency in a Central African state, within a reform programme financed by a multilateral donor (see case study below).

Stakeholder engagement and social acceptability

Dialogue with users and local authorities, tariff pedagogy, stakeholder mapping. Acceptability is treated as a risk factor on reform outcomes, not as a communications issue.

Typical contexts: tariff increase after a prolonged freeze, smart meter roll-out, energy infrastructure siting, restructuring of public utilities.

Institutional and crisis communications

Sensitive files, environmental controversies, relations with elected officials, administrations and the media.

Experience: 12 years in local government handling public communications, crisis management and institutional relations.

Case study: power sector reform in a Central African state (2026)

Independent field mission conducted in 2026 in the capital of a Central African state, within the environment of a power sector reform programme financed by a multilateral donor (a Program-for-Results operation).

Institutional interviews across the sector: the programme's coordination unit (ministry in charge of energy), the national rural electrification agency, a bilateral donor present in-country.
Deliverables handed to the programme coordinator: a vision note proposing to develop a national institution into a regional school for Central Africa's electricity workforce; a training catalogue (23 modules, 6 career tracks, 1 regional capstone project); a technical support proposal.
Results-linked design: documents designed to serve the results indicators of a Program-for-Results operation (disbursement tied to results, not expenditure) and the regional integration agenda of the regional power pool.
Acceptability module: securing reform outcomes — user acceptability, tariff pedagogy after a prolonged freeze, smart meter roll-out, engagement with users and local authorities.

Methods

Semi-structured institutional interviews, documentary and regulatory analysis, comparative case studies, multi-criteria international benchmarking, stakeholder mapping, training design. Written and oral deliverables in French and English.

Working framework

Registered energy expert with the African Development Bank.
Geographic scope: France and Europe, francophone Africa, Indo-Pacific. Immediately available for international travel, short and medium assignments.
Working languages: French, English.

Assignments are carried out in an independent capacity. My publications, op-eds and teaching engage only myself.

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