CV Claude Guillemain
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Claude Jean Robert GUILLEMAIN RURAL FINANCE & MICRO FINANCE SENIOR EXPERT Nationality: French Birth date / age: 1 March 1944 - 61 years |
Key qualifications, SKILLS and EXPERIENCE:
Project management with demonstrated experience in international relations. Particularly co-operation policy with developing countries and European Union, preparation, management and assessment of development projects and investments projects in different sectors.
Experienced banker and consultant, holding a number of senior positions with the French private commercial bank Crédit Agricole. In addition, worked for two years, on a part time basis, as a trainer with the CFPB (French Banking Training system for bank staff and executives). Crédit Agricole technical assistance programmes manager. Team leader of three long-term missions (Togo, Sultanate of Oman, Malawi).
Managing Director of a Consulting firm (1988-1996) : AGRAL CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL Consultancy work centred in the areas of micro and rural finance, SME development, bank strategy and institution building, savings and credit policy, resources collection, training, general management, organisation, control and systems. Work for the European Commission (PHARE, TACIS, MEDA), EBRD and World Bank, FAO, IFAD, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), in a variety of countries including Central Europe, Mediterranean region, Asia, Middle East, Africa.
Senior Expert : Rural finance id microfinance (development, training and financial services) (consultancy, MEDA TEAMS Brussels), Private Sector Support, SMEs development.
As Senior Expert, within EC Delegation to Malawi, senior advisor to Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation for matters relating to the conceptual and operational aspects of the Rural and Micro Finance Programme, providing policy and strategy guidance to this programme as well to the Ministry of Agriculture (Institutional Building Plan).
Expert registered in the roster of EUROPEAID EU individual experts (decision on OJEC n° C 274 dated 26th September 2000). http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/experts/experts_en.htm
Expert registered in the roster of CGAP http://www.microfinancegateway.org/content/member/detail/30404
Relevant experience in working under Indefinite Delivery Contracts (Framework Contracts with European Commission): Lithuania, Romania (1996, 1997, 1998)
COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE:
| CENTRAL EUROPE (2 years) | Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova |
| CENTRAL ASIA | Turkmenistan |
| ASIA (2 years) | Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, India |
| MEDITERRANEAN REGION (5 years) | Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia |
| MIDDLE EAST (5 years) | Oman, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq |
| AFRICA (6 years) | Uganda, Malawi, Côte d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Togo, Rwanda, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Mali, Central African Republic, Comoros, Ethiopia, Benin, Mozambique |
| WESTERN EUROPE (10 years) | France, Belgium |
Professional Experience Record: (recent missions) *
| Date | March 2005 to April 2005 |
| Position | Senior Expert - Rural and Micro Finance Advisor |
| Company | SATEC for ACSS Project implemented in conjunction with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture |
| Description | Improvement of the credit offer for the Dairy Sector in Mbarara District (Uganda)
The main objective of this mission was to reinforce the political and economic roles of farmers' organizations, and to encourage the consultation between different actors of the Agricultural sector (farmers' organizations, private sector, government) at different levels (local, regional and national).
The first component supports the establishment or the strengthening of farmers' organizations undertakes economic and technical functions. Its scope of intervention is the dairy sector, in Mbarara District, which contributes to a major part of the milk supply in Kampala. The interventional strategy of this component complies with the general objective of the project, and aims at reinforcing the role of Farmers Organizations (FOs), in the commodity chain, especially their economic functions. The second objective of this study was to establish a strategy and to propose operational solutions for the project and its partners; to improve the credit offer for FOs and individual farmers in Mbarara District, and to facilitate the investments in the dairy sector ate different levels: production, commercialization, service and input provision. The specific objectives were as follows: At short term:
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| Date | April 2002 to April 2004 |
| Position | Senior Expert - Rural and Micro Finance Advisor (Lilongwe Malawi) |
| Company | European Commission EUROPAID |
| Description | As Micro Finance Advisor to the Malawian Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Food Security, EU Delegation in Malawi (Food Security Programme), I am responsible for (1) assessing the problems being experienced by farmers, private sector participants and pertinent government bodies in the areas of private sector support, micro finance, micro credit and micro enterprises; (2) identifying programs and developing strategies for areas in which European Commission intervention could be useful and appropriate, taking into account the current needs of the farmers and private sector and governments, other donor activities, and past program designs and interventions; (3) designing, developing, implementing, and supervising specific interventions to address the constraints and barriers to entrepreneurs in the region; and (4) serving as resource person in private sector support, micro finance and technical debates with senior level local government and other donor officials at both the policy and technical level. |
| Date | October 1998 to December 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Senior Expert - MEDA TEAMS (Brussels) European Commission EUROPAID | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Company | ECO / MEDA Technical Assistance Programme funded by EU | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Private sector, SMEs development, Micro - Finance expert. Private Sector - SMEs development, technical assistance to the MEDA Programme of the European Union ( RELEX and EUROPEAID), micro-enterprise development, training and financial services. Strategy and operational Policy, Institutional Building & Strengthening plans. Projects studies, Feasibility studies. Evaluation. Micro-Finance, SME finance, banking, savings and credit policy, guarantee funds Missions :
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| Date | July 1998 (1 mission) |
| Location | TURKMENISTAN |
| Position | Rural Credit Specialist |
| Company | SWEDEAGRI Consortium / TACIS Programme funded mission |
| Description | Policy advice to support Farmers Associations : to investigate the current availability of credit to farmers associations and individual Leaseholders from local sources
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| Date | December 1997 - June 1998 (6 missions) |
| Location | ROMANIA |
| Position | Team Leader of two studies : Agricultural Insurance & Rural Finance |
| Company | FIDA / ATA (Agriconsulting) Consortium / PHARE Programme funded mission |
| Description |
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| Date | January 1998 - May 1998 (3 missions) July 1997 - September 1997 (1 mission) |
| Location | LITHUANIA |
| Position | Team leader & Co-ordinator of the Rural Credit Guarantee Fund (RCGF) |
| Company | FIDA / ATA (Agriconsulting) Consortium / PHARE Programme funded mission |
| Description | The objective of this consultancy is to assist the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry in developing the policies and strategies required for a successful operation of the RCGF as well as to provide policy and strategic advice to the RCGF during its initial operation. Key outputs of this consultancy are as follow:
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* Detailed CV available on request
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Institution: UNICO BANKING GROUP
Date: 1986
Degree or Diploma : UNICO BANKING GROUP Training Programme - Paris. Certificate Banking Management
Institution: Institut Technique de Banque (ITB) - Paris
Date: 1970 - 1972
Degree or Diploma: Financial Markets Degree
Institutio: Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises - Reims
Date 1965 - 1968
Diploma: Master in Business Administration
Specialisation: Marketing and Foreign Trade.
Language skills: (Mark 1 to 5 competence)
| Language | Reading | Speaking | Writing |
| French | - | Mother tongue | - |
| English | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Spanish | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Russian | - | 1 | - |
| Arabic | - | 1 | - |
Membership of professional bodies:
| From | Country | Organisation |
| 2006 | Brussels | RBE-AEICT: Chairman of RBE-AEICT. Professional association of independent experts in technical cooperation |
| 2004 | Malawi | SHADE : Chairman of "The SHADE", an NGO and professional association of rural finance and micro finance experts, supported by independent Experts (Africa / Europe) based in Lilongwe http://www.shade-llw.org |
| 2001 | Brussels | SIFRA : Member of SIFRA, Microfinance Networking Facilitators - Brussels http://www.sifra.org |
Other skills
Bank training (1973 - 1975 Teacher , on a part time basis, within the CFPB, the French professional bankers training Institution)
Computer literate
Web master of six Web sites
Publications
1989: General methodology for the feasibility of a sustainable Rural Finance System (European Commission)
1990: Specialised credit lines for SME (European Commission)
Seminars
November/December 1992 & January/February/September 1993 - LAOS
National seminar (80 attendants) on financial policies and rural financial system.
April /July 1991 - VIETNAM
National seminar on rural finance policies (70 attendants)
February 1991 - COTE D'IVOIRE
National seminar on the financial sector and the role of intermediary organisations, linked with institutional financial systems
References
Hon. Mr Henry MOUSSA, Minister of Transports, Lilongwe, MALAWI
Mr Marc PIERINI, Head of EU Delegation, Tunis
Mr Patrick LAURENT, Head of EU RELEX Mediterranean region, Brussels