With a degree in civil and urban engineering, Magloire Tina specializes in urban infrastructure management and water supply and sanitation service management projects. In addition, he has over 17 years' international experience, gained mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. After initially working as a research and design engineer, Magloire began taking on project manager and programme coordinator roles, effectively managing the administrative and financial aspects of the projects on which he worked. He has robust experience of working on feasibility studies, project management, public procurement, works and services monitoring and audits.His familiarity with procurement procedures and EU, AFD and ADB-funded projects’ disbursement procedures make Magloire a valuable and recognised asset for public stakeholders, particularly local authorities.Having worked closely on multi-stakeholder consultation processes, Magloire has a thorough understanding of the issues involved in providing access to basic urban services in developing countries, and he thus has the ability to guide and support stakeholders in their strategic decisions and in the management of their investment programmes.He provides strategic, technical and managerial assistance to contracting authorities, particularly as regards outsourced water and sanitation service management, while at the same time helping these contracting authorities to develop their skills. Magloire's communication skills means he has excellent consultation and report-writing skills, and is thus able to facilitate communication between stakeholders in international and multicultural working environments.

Hélène is an agri-development engineer with proven experience in institutional and organisational capacity-building, as well as in the monitoring and evaluation of public water and sanitation policies in several countries.Her managerial skills and expertise have led her to lead a number of projects for international, private and non-governmental organisations relating to the strengthening of municipal project management, the promotion of gender equality, decentralisation and the delegation of public drinking water and sanitation services.The studies and assignments she conducts in the water sector cover various phases of the project cycle: institutional and socio-economic feasibility, monitoring and evaluation, cross-cutting studies, capitalisation and technical assistance. Hélène has also helped to define national policies and strategies relating to water and sanitation, and to set up sectoral steering mechanisms.This experience has given Hélène considerable expertise in defining and implementing capacity-building strategies and results-based management, as well as a keen interest in moderating workshops and seminars for reflection, experience-sharing and training. Hélène Figea, who worked at Hydroconseil between 2018 and 2022, joins the Global Development team again in 2024.

Clémence Foreau holds an engineering degree from Polytech Tours, where she specialised in urban planning and the environment. During her studies and first professional experiences, she focused on the urban issues facing developing countries.Before joining Urbaconsulting as a junior project manager in 2022, Clémence worked with French NGOs (Urbanistes Sans Frontières, ADESAF) and consulting firms, leading projects on improving living conditions in informal settlements, urban planning, access to basic public services, and assessing and reducing urban vulnerability in Africa (Senegal, Togo), Asia (India) and similar settings (Mayotte).Convinced that working in partnership with local stakeholders is vital for building a project that is adapted to the situation on the ground, and for enabling knowledge sharing, Clémence has become an expert in co-constructing projects through citizen engagement.As a result, Clémence possesses the knowledge and skills required to carry out sustainable, resilient and locally-tailored projects.

François Touchais has over 22 years of environmental law and water legislation experience. He has worked on a range of projects that focused on water resources, flooding, drought, drinking water and sanitation, waste, energy, climate change adaptation, coastal zones, and urbanism.As an expert, he has carried out numerous institutional and legal water supply and sanitation, and water resource management projects. He provides technical assistance, institutional and public policy evaluation, water law development and capacity-building services.He has coordinated a number of multimillion euro projects.Over the course of his career, François has worked with the International Office for Water, Umweltbundesamt (the Austrian environment agency) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.He has also worked as a consultant for UNDP, UNICEF, UNECE and GIZ.

Charlotte Kalinowski is a public law and political science graduate specialising in the design and management of public services, mainly water, sanitation and solid waste. She joined Hydroconseil in 2015 after having spent several years working for the largest sanitation authority in Europe (SIAAP). Over the course of her 15 year career, Charlotte has conducted national sector studies, defined national policies and strategies, and led the implementation of a large number of projects to structure sanitation services (technical, institutional, financial and socio-economic feasibility studies; project preparation, monitoring and evaluation; research; facilitating consultation workshops; developing concession contracts, etc.). She has also provided technical assistance to project owners on structuring and implementing urban development projects. She has extensive experience of the economic and institutional issues specific to the water, sanitation and waste sectors, both in large and small cities and in rural areas. Charlotte has worked in Africa, the Middle East and south-east Asia. She is currently based in Lebanon where she coordinates Hydroconseil and Urbaconsulting activities.

Emma has a Master’s 2 degree in International Political Economy (University of Grenoble) and 14 years' experience of conducting economic analyses and managing projects in the basic services (drinking water, hygiene) and public health sectors (education and health promotion, social protection). Before joining Hydroconseil in 2016, Emma spent two-and-a-half years working in the diplomatic service, in the French embassies in Pakistan and Panama, and developed the ability to work effectively with all types of stakeholder (private, public, elected officials, associations, users). She also worked in the health and social protection sector for 5 years, where she acquired extensive prevention, behaviour change, service development and capacity-building expertise. Pro-active and good communicator, Emma is able to participate in both strategic discussions and practical implementation activities in the field. Since joining Hydroconseil, she has specialised in the economic and financial analysis of drinking water, sanitation and energy projects and services. She works in particular on the financial.

Benoit Paillet is an engineer who specialises in assessing, designing and monitoring the construction of water supply and sanitation systems. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Water Engineering in 2005, he applied and honed his knowledge and skills working for consulting firms, public water supply and sanitation utilities and international NGOs in Europe, Asia and Africa. Through his work preparing 46 master plans, Benoit developed an in-depth understanding of the practical challenges of rural and urban water supply and sanitation. In his subsequent position as head of a department managing an annual €7.5 million budget for improving water supply and sanitation networks, he worked with his team on planning, designing and implementing technical solutions to address these challenges. With a specific interest in optimising water supply network functionality, he has also overseen a range of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and pressure management programmes. In addition to speaking French and English, Benoit is fluent in Portuguese, which he learnt while working in East Timor, Mozambique and Portugal. 

Since joining Hydroconseil in 2022, he has specialized in socio-economics analysis and financial studies of public services in Mali and Togo. In 2019, he worked as a Financial Response Data Analyst of iMMAP in Colombia. Camilo worked at PADF (Pan American Development Foundation) in the mobilization of resources for the humanitarian response to the crisis after the Haiti Earthquake in 2010. He also conducted socio-economic studies for cooperatives and communities in the Dominican Republic. In 2011 as a project assistant, Camilo worked in the formulation of urban projects for vulnerable populations in communities in the south of Bogota, Colombia.  As a UNDP National Technical Assistant in 2013, Camilo mobilized his expertise in the realization of participatory diagnoses, economic and financial analyses, evaluation of effects, results, and impacts for interventions (socio-economic projects, creation, improvement of collective infrastructures, productive projects, financial projections, performance analyses) of the UNDP Poverty Reduction Department in the whole Colombian territory. Thanks to his experience at the United Nations, he has a solid knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially those of poverty reduction, economic and financial development, decent work, and economic growth. 

Rachel Kelly NOUPA is not only a highly experienced sociologist, but also and above all a field practitioner, well-versed in the tools and methodologies of social engineering for urban development projects. Versatile and highly adaptable, she is involved in a wide range of fields, including urban development in relation to flood risk management, adaptation to climate change, access to WASH services, hygiene and health, faecal sludge management, waste management and wastewater management, etc. Rachel Kelly is responsible for the social aspects of many of the projects in which she is involved, and holds key positions in the implementation of IEC (Information-Education-Communication) activities for PADY 2 (Yaoundé 2nd phase sanitation project) and the Yaoundé Foul Sludge Management Sector Structuring Project. In addition, she coordinates the Urban and Social Project Management for the Project to Promote Local and Environmental Initiatives for Flood Management (PILEGI) in Bangui, by providing social support for labour-based works and helping to set up and manage a support fund for local environmental initiatives. A loyal collaborator, she worked for several years in the ERA Cameroun team, a long-standing partner of the Global Development group, before joining the Urbaconsulting team in 2022.

A graduate of CERDI (International Development Research Centre) in Clermont-Ferrand (France), Marie specializes in development economics and project analysis. This selective master's degree provided her with the skills required to apply project management and analysis tools and applied research methodologies to development economics-related issues.Marie began her career working in a Colombian NGO, which enabled her to quickly familiarize herself with the Latin American context. She subsequently joined Hydroconseil, where she has been applying her socio-economic, institutional and statistical expertise to water and sanitation access improvement projects since 2019.Marie also specializes in conducting international-level evaluations of water, sanitation and hygiene projects/programmes. Having worked on evaluations for NGOs, as well as for large development agencies (UNESCO, UNICEF, AFD), she has experience of using a range of evaluation approaches, methodologies and tools, which she is able to adapt to a wide range of fields of study and contexts.Since July 2021, Marie has been based in Colombia, where she is working with Nexsom, notably providing technical assistance to AFD on water and risk management as part of the Euroclima+ programme being implemented across Latin America and the Caribbean. This is enabling her to build in-depth knowledge of the water and sanitation sector in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

After graduating with a degree in political science, Lise-Ella continued her studies at Sciences Po Rennes - ENS Rennes, completing a Master's degree in Urban Services Engineering in Networks (ISUR), specialising in improving access to essential services in developing countries.Lise-Ella has been working as a water, sanitation and solid waste specialist and project manager since 2019. She has worked on a range of socio-economic studies, not only developing tools and methodologies, but also delivering training and analysing the qualitative and quantitative data collected. She has acquired an in-depth knowledge of participatory social engineering methods and is used to working with communities and informal sectors to develop access to essential services. Using her knowledge of public policies, she also conducts institutional and organisational assessments for local institutions (ministries, cities, operators, etc.). Finally, Lise-Ella adopts an inclusive and resilient development approach to each of the projects in which she is involved.Her project experience has led her to specialise in the solid waste sector, conducting waste characterisation studies (Caribbean and West Africa), supporting the creation or extension of pre-collection services in urban areas (Central Africa) and sharing lessons learned on women's practices in waste prevention, management and recovery (Maghreb).

As soon as he had completed his research projects in solid waste management and the design of engineering structures, Volodia specialised in the study of issues relating to soft mobility and urban planning. By working in design offices on the design and implementation of urban projects, he has developed technical skills in the areas of infrastructure, mobility, intermodality and accessibility.Convinced that the academic and technical skills of an engineer can be put to good use in social development, strengthening human ties and tackling environmental emergencies by acting directly in the field, Volodia joined AFD's teams in the Central African Republic. For two years he was responsible for the technical and financial monitoring of the urban development, water and sanitation portfolio and acted as the agency's gender focal point.By becoming fully involved in the identification, appraisal and management of projects in Central Africa, Volodia has been able to deepen his knowledge of donor procedures and provide effective support to the partners and local authorities involved in these projects. Driven by a desire to work with local resources, and to help build sustainable, appropriate projects, he provides capacity-building and technical assistance to project owners.On joining the Urbaconsulting team, he will be working with Global Development Group customers as an expert in urban planning, water and sanitation, providing cross-functional and operational support. He is also mobilised to provide institutional support by taking part in the project to support the reform of the normative framework for urban planning implemented in Cameroon.

With a dual Master's degree in Economics and Networked Urban Services Engineering (from IEP Rennes), Lola specialises in essential urban networks, project and business management.Lola graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the Rennes 1 University’s Economic Sciences Faculty, where she acquired robust statistics, econometrics and survey analysis skills. As part of her Master's degree in project management, she was subsequently able to assist companies and projects using economic analysis tools and methods.For her second master's degree at the IEP in Rennes, she specialised in access to housing and essential services such as energy, water, sanitation, waste and mobility in developing countries. During this year of study, she prepared an expert report on drinking water, rainwater and sanitation in Conakry (Guinea).Within Hydroconseil, she is working as a junior energy expert. She has been involved in various projects, and has worked on preparing calls for tender and launching the group's new energy brand. Lola has also helped develop the report on rural and semi-urban households’ willingness-to-pay for the electricity service in Haiti.

Garance holds a master's degree in development economics from the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), part of the Clermont-Ferrand School of Economics, and she specialises in official development assistance project analysis and management. After two years studying at the ENS D2 grandes écoles preparatory class in Bordeaux, Garance turned her focus to the socio-economic development sector in developing countries. Through her studies, Garance has developed sound project management and analysis skills, built an in-depth knowledge of the economic, social, political and environmental challenges of development, and mastered the use of quantitative and qualitative analysis and survey technical tools. Her experience working as WO.MEN.STRUATION project manager for the non-profit organization Afric'Avenir raised her awareness of the difficulties people face in accessing water and hygiene facilities in developing countries and motivated her to join Hydroconseil in 2023. At Hydroconseil, Garance works on setting up and managing projects to provide access to essential public services, and she also provides economic and institutional analysis expertise.