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.

Assignments are carried by Lapin Bleu SASU (Lyon), a mission-driven company (société à mission) and registered training provider (NDA 84692485869): invoicing in France and internationally, a structure suited to public and institutional procurement.

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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