CONTACT INFORMATION:
LANGUAGES
French and English: bilingual
Russian and Italian: conversational
WORK HISTORY
PHELPS DODGE / FREEPORT MCMORAN (US), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) subsidiary Tenke Fungurume Mining s.a.r.l. (TFM), based in Lubumbashi (DRC) approximately 250 employees:
2007
Senior Legal Counsel contributing on the development of the future world largest copper mine (start of production planned for 2009, 100.000 t/year)
-Created and managed the Legal Department, and established its strategy (hiring collaborators and subcontracting with 3 domestic and international legal firms)
-Developed and entertained good relations with the Congolese Administration (at the State, Provincial and District levels), the NGOs and the trade-unions, through reports, meetings and on-site visits
-Identified and obtained from the Administration, permits and authorizations necessary to the mine development activities, such as wood-felling, use of explosives, import of goods
-Reached compromises on four land conflicts with locals
AREVA /COGEMA, worldwide leader in the uranium field, based in Paris with multiple missions overseas
1998 to 2006 Legal Affairs Manager in the Business Unit Mines working within a multi-disciplinary team (engineers, geologists, commercial specialists, financial advisers):
-Diagnostic and strategy: facilitated the Company's investment decisions by assessing political climate & analyzing legal framework through overseas missions ; as a result, received approval for exploration in Kazakhstan, Russia, Mali and Madagascar -Implementation: enabled the opening of subsidiaries, JV or branches by elaborating and applying strategies for investments (in Madagascar: COGEMADA, in Niger COGEMA-Niger, in Kazakhstan KATCO)
-Negotiations: provided legal advice for AREVA's world-wide mining activities by drafting and negotiating mining conventions, joint ventures. Two mining Conventions were drafted and negotiated for AREVA's subsidiaries in Niger in 2002 and one Mining Convention was successfully negotiated with Kazakhstan the same year.
-Development: actively contributed to the development of two uranium mines in Kazakhstan, and for exploration to take place in various countries, by negotiating as a team-member with state agencies and trans-national mining companies.
CENTRE FOR ENERGY PETROLEUM AND MINERAL LAW & POLICY, Consulting Department, Dundee, UK
1997 Business Development Manager
-Enabled the CEPMLP to become a working-partner to international organisations (Tacis, World Bank, EBRD, ADB, Industry) by setting up the Consulting Division (7 internal specialists and a team of about 20 overseas specialists)
-Prepared and negotiated two proposals for which the CEPMLP was shortlisted -Simultaneously, taught Mineral Law and Policy course to 40 postgraduate students/professionals coming from the Industry, NGOs and Governments: reaching a 100% success rate at the final exam
-Facilitated a better understanding by the Indonesian professionals vis-à-vis foreign investors by working as a team-member on a training mining policy mission financed by Rio Tinto in Bandung, Indonesia. The 30 participants were members of the mining industry and government,
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
March 1997 INTERNATIONAL MINING CONSULTANT MACKAY AND SCHNELLMAN, London, UK Significantly contributed to improve the legislation of Côte d'Ivoire (CI) by undertaking a comparative review of CI mining legislation as contrasted with other West-African countries. This project was financed by the World Bank for the CI Government..
April & May 1996 PRICE WATERHOUSE (Juridique & Fiscal), Paris, France Assisted PRICE WATERHOUSE in becoming a pioneer in the domain of mining law in both Civil Law and Common Law countries by comparing those systems with regard to mining investments.
EDUCATION
1993-1997 Ph.D. in Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, U.K. Subject: "Negotiating Mining Agreements, Past, Present and Future Trends"
1990-1993 Master of Business Law (with distinction) University of Nice, France.
1988-1990 Diplôma of Business Management, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Nice, France
PUBLICATIONS
2006 "Tolkien: The Lord of the Mines ", Minerals & Energy, Raw Material Report, Vol20 N°3/4 pp.60-68
2001 "When Is It Worth It? (negotiating mining agreements)", Minerals & Energy, RMR, Vol16 N°4 pp.13-21
1998 Book: "Negotiating Mining Agreements: Past, Present and Current Trends", Kluwer Law Intl (ed.), UK
1994 "Environmental Legislation and the Need for Environmental Impact Assessment and Pollution Control", CEPMLP (pub.)
HOBBIES
Opera, jiu-jitsu, painting
Two weeks humanitarian work in Mali in December 2005 for the NGO "Planète Urgences" teaching local NGOs how to develop a project
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