Team

Benoît ALLIX, founding partner and former President of Nodalis (HEC), is in charge of the firm’s transport sector, and specialises in institutional, legal and financial aspects of the development and management of infrastructure and public services, especially in privatizations, Public Private Partnerships projects and project financing.

With over thirty five years of experience as a Consultant, Benoît ALLIX is qualified to appraise and improve project documentation efficiently and rapidly, always in close collaboration with the project owners and stakeholders, especially in the transport sector, as team leader, transport specialist, institutional and PPP expert. Benoît ALLIX has a very good knowledge of various African countries as well of their transport sector policies and/or their institutional frameworks. He also has a deep knowledge of institutional funders which intervene on the public financing part of projects (World Bank, AfD, African Development Bank,…).

A graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, a prestigious French engineering school, Charles SAMBA has more than 30 year experience in the energy sector. He has held several strategic senior management positions in general and technical departments within various electricity companies in Europe and in Africa.

Daniel TAPIN is a legal expert specializing in legal, institutional and regulatory aspects of infrastructure investment transactions (Lease Management and Concession Contracts, BOT, BOO) in the field of electricity, water, and renewable energies with an emphasis on privatization, divestiture, public-private partnership and restructuring investment strategies.

He has participated in the feasibility studies for the granting of concessions (BOT) for the production and distribution of power and/or water in Senegal, Lebanon and in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Niger and Gabon and as part of these missions he has drafted laws on water and electricity, regulations for institutional reforms and governing applications for tenders, concession / BOT/ lease contracts on behalf of the World Bank and AFD (French development Agency).

Lawyer at the Paris Bar for over 25 years, Rose-Line AVERBOUCH, is a legal expert in public business law in emerging countries (sub-Saharan Africa, MEDA, Ukraine), specifically in the electricity, energy, water, waste, transportation and urban development fields.

François BOULANGER is an expert in urban economics, urban development finance, decentralization policies, and in the development and management of infrastructure services, in particular through partnerships with the private sector. Through over fifteen years of experience in Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East, first as a finance manager for the Keolis Group (a leading private, global operator of public passenger transport services), then with the World Bank, François BOULANGER has acquired an excellent understanding of urban development and infrastructure issues as seen from the public authorities’ side, from the side of International Financial Institutions, as well as from the side of private operators and developers.

Nodalis partner, Marc MULLER is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the ENPC School of International Management (MBA program of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées).

Marc MULLER specializes in the financial and institutional aspects of international development projects, particularly in the field of water, sanitation, electricity and transportation infrastructures, as well as regulation. More specifically, Marc MULLER oversees and carries out financial studies, including the development of technico-financial models for feasibility studies, business plans or regulation, as part of numerous missions related to Public Private Partnerships (PPP), monitoring of public utilities, major national or regional infrastructures, urban transport or Output-Based Aid (OBA) financing. He has been involved in the development of large national or regional infrastructures (dams, power transmission lines, etc.), as well as in photovoltaic production projects, urban transport and treatment plants. He has participated in several financial advisory missions for governments and private developers in relation to hydroelectric schemes, management delegations in the water supply and sanitation sector or transport facilities (freeways, tramways, etc.)..

He has extensive experience working in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Southeast Asia and the Latin America/Caribbean region.

Martin BUCHSENSCHUTZ is President of Nodalis. As an economic engineer (Ecole Centrale Paris / Université Panthéon Sorbonne), he has acquired an extensive experience in infrastructure development projects and in the strengthening of public services in the energy, water and sanitation sectors. He is regularly involved in sectoral reform strategies and in improving the performance of public service operators. He leads transaction advisory missions, with a strong focus on large renewable energy projects.

Thomas Barbat is an engineering economist who specializes in the economic, financial and contractual structuring aspects of infrastructures and public services development projects in the electricity and water and sanitation sectors. He led and participated in several economic and financial studies or financial advisory assignments related to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for infrastructure projects in developing and emerging countries, including the preparation of financial models, demand studies, drafting of projects’ contracts, and negotiations until financial close.

Thomas provided support as financial advisor to the Government of Cameroon for the Nachtigal hydroelectric power plant (420 MW) which reached financial closed in December 2018 and was awarded “Global Multilateral Deal of the Year” by Project Finance International (PFI). In the water and sanitation sector, Thomas BARBAT assisted the Government of Niger in the negotiations on an addendum to the SPEN concession contract.

Commercial attachée.

Lindsay SPAGNOLO is an accounting and general management expert with fifteen years of work experience.

She was administrative and financial manager for several companies in different economic sectors before joining Nodalis Conseil in 2008. She makes a decisive contribution to the efficient running of Nodalis Conseil.

Antoine MAZAS graduated from Sciences Po (Paris) in Public Policy and from ESSEC Business School (Paris) in Finance and Management. He has developed a sound knowledge of project finance, public law and contracting procedures, public-private partnerships, as well as a good general understanding of public institutions and private companies.

After notably interning as an economic assistant in the French Embassy in Hungary and as a project coordinator for Social Entrepreneurship programs in South East Asia, he worked during several years as a finance and legal consultant for local public institutions in France, especially in the water and sanitation sector. During that period, he was project leader for several missions in French Guyana and spent one week per month in French Amazonia.

As a consultant for Nodalis, he now develops strategic, financial, organizational and legal expertise in emerging and developing countries, working for funding institutions as well as governments, especially for infrastructure projects in different sectors (water, sanitation, energy, transportation,…).

Clotilde BOYER is an AgroParisTech engineer with a master's degree in environmental economics from the Universidade de Lisboa. She specializes in the institutional, economic and financial aspects of infrastructure projects in emerging and developing countries.

She is involved in the development of public-private partnerships, in particular for large renewable energy projects (206 MWp Ruzizi III hydroelectric power plant between Burundi, Rwanda and DRC, 30 MWp solar PV power plant in Mozambique) or electricity transmission (line between Laos and Vietnam). She also participates in national strategic studies. She is currently assisting the Algerian government in the economic analysis of scenarios for the introduction of renewable energy in the national mix. She also provided support for two years to the Mozambican government to access climate finance from the NAMA Facility, in the solid waste management sector.

Before joining Nodalis, Clotilde BOYER acquired a solid experience in advising local authorities in France and in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the field of public-private contracting.

Afaf MKAMI holds a double engineering degree from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France and Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publics in Morocco, and participates in institutional, economic and financial studies pertaining to the development and management of infrastructure and public services in developing countries, especially in the transport sector. Afaf is currently working on the contractual and financial aspects of an AFD-financed study for the development and modernization of the bus network of the city of Nagpur in India.

Before joining Nodalis, Afaf MKAMI was working as a transport consultant for the World Bank (WB) in Morocco, where she has supported the preparation and supervision of the WB-financed projects in the country. Afaf has also supported several other WB-financed transport projects and sectoral studies in the MENA and West African region during her internship in Washington D.C.

François BEAUCHAIN holds a MSc from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and from the KTH University (Stockholm), with a major in environmental sciences. He started his career in an engineering company designing infrastructures in developing countries under international financing, and worked in the fields of energy, climate change and urban development.

François BEAUCHAIN is involved in institutional, economic, and financial studies in the energy sector: structuring of renewable energy IPP transactions, of rural electrification concessions, upstream studies to revise the legal framework for the selection of private operators and electricity tariffs studies.

François BEAUCHAIN has a good knowledge of the issues related to energy planning, renewable energies, and energy efficiency, and of the challenges of adaptation and mitigation of climate change.

Graduated from Paris Dauphine University and holding a MSc in European Public Policy from University College London, Laetitia LABAUTE is involved in several projects in the field of public services. As a water and sanitation consultant, Laetitia Labaute has acquired a good understanding of the institutional, economic and financial issues surrounding the access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services, particularly in West Africa. She has contributed to several organizational and/or financial diagnoses of public utilities in Africa, including SOMAPEP-SA and EDM-SA in Mali, ONEP in Côte d'Ivoire and ONAS in Senegal, with the objective of strengthening the capacities and performance of these companies.

Habiboulaye DIALLO is from the Republic of Guinea and did all his university studies in France.

He holds a degree in OHADA Law as well as two master’s degrees, one in Public Business Law and the other in Energy Law. Habiboulaye has successively worked for Vinci Autoroutes, Engie and Enedis. He is thus familiar with the main issues and legal analyses of major infrastructure projects.

Imbued with his African values and eager to take part in development projects in emerging countries, Habiboulaye contributes to strengthen the legal expertise of Nodalis on infrastructure and public services projects in all its sectors of intervention.

Carelle KRA graduated from the University of Paris Dauphine with a master's degree in corporate financial management. By joining Nodalis, she puts her transversal competence in finance and her analytical skills at the service of the diverse needs of infrastructure and public services development and management projects.

As a consultant, Carelle KRA is involved in the energy sector on projects with financial, legal, institutional and contractual dimensions. In the transport sector, she has been working on a mission to assist in the operationalisation of an urban mobility organising unit.

Finally, on the climate aspects, she has developed a solid knowledge on the specific subjects of carbon impact assessments of infrastructure or energy mix strategies, and has participated in a feasibility study for the implementation of a forestry facility in Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea.