Geoff Haley

Chairman

Geoff Haley was associated with various Specialised Assignments, which includes Advisory in Greek Government Agency DEPA, the Emissions Trading Group (a group of seventy major PLC’s), EC on financing for TENs programme, EBRD on project procurement in PPP sector, UNIDO (Vienna) and UNCTAD (Geneva) on PPP implementation and training, UN on joint energy project for Mali, Mauritania and Senegal, Government of Georgia on Tbilisi Water, Foreign and Commonwealth office on embassies in Kiev and Sofia, Government of Jordan on Amman water project and in PPP electricity programme. He was also Consultant to K Legal and Fenwick Elliot.


He had also advised on major waste management and waste to energy plants, major oil and a gas gathering project in Pakistan, Co-gen gas fired power station in the UK etc, the Energy Charter Treaty and accompanied missions to Russia and Kiev. He also led negotiations for the acquisition of Petrocarbon from Burmah Oil, proposal for first proposed private power station in Northern Ireland in 1986/87, proposal for subsea pipeline system and terminal at Nigg, Scotland.


Moreover, He had acted for private consortium on first DBFO highways project in UK- A69 Carlisle to Newcastle, construction consortium (10 contractors) on Channel Tunnel, private sector consortium on Channel Tunnel Rail Link. He also acted on PPP government accommodation projects in UK (Inland Revenue, Bootle and Belfast Courts) and on two PPP hospitals in UK (Calderdale and Worcester).



His vast Management experience includes Working as General Manager of Costain Ventures (1986-1989), where he used to look after the Group’s equity investments in major projects in the UK and overseas, Directorship of GKN Kwikform, British Urban Development, Costain UK, Costain Concrete and Kent European Enterprises Ltd. He also worked with the National Audit Office on a series of initiatives in the UK on relationship management between the public/private sectors, Government PPP Units of Netherlands and South Africa on country strategy and policy and Training Programmers for EIB and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also Partner of Arnold and Porter(1998-2000, SJ Berwin (1993-1998), Theodore Goddard (1989-1993) and Legal Adviser of Costain Group (1976-1986).


He is the Author of the Book “A-Z of BOOT” and Part author of UNIDO book on BOOT projects. His lectures extensively on PPPs and has had many articles published. He also advises governments, municipalities and private sector consortia on the introduction and implementation of PPPs. He also conducts training courses for governments and the private sector. He has recently set up an Academic Forum for Universities and educational institutions around the world to encourage the teaching of project finance in first degree, postgraduate and business school courses. His recent training programmes include European.