Francois BERGERE ,51, has a diversified professional experience in the fields of public management, project and infrastructure finance as Conseiller maitre (Senior auditor) at the Cour des comptes (France's national audit office), member of external audit teams for multilateral organisations (UNDP,WMO,UNHCR,OECD...);he worked as CFO, then managing director of technical subsidiaries of the Caisse des Depots Group in Energy and Environment from 1989 to 1997 and manager of multinational Investment funds in infrastructures in Southeast Asia and Europe from 1997 to 2002. In April 2005, he was selected to set-up the newly-created Mission dAppui aux PPP (PPP task force) with the French ministry of Finance, as Secretary General. He is a graduate of HEC (French business school) and Ecole Nationale d Administration (ENA) and holds a Master of economics from University of Paris I-Sorbonne. He also graduated from Columbia Business Schools (NY) Executive program in Business Administration in 1991. Author of : Guide operationnel des PPP editions le Moniteur- 2007