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Curriculum Vitae Ian Palmer Address Phone: +27 21 671 1402 PO Box 46830, Glosderry, Cape Town, 7702 Fax: +27 21 671 1409 South Africa Cell: +27 83 675 4762 E-mail: [email protected] Personal Date of birth: 16 September 1949 Languages: English (good) Married with two children. Other: Education M. Eng. (Environmental): Pennsylvania State University 1981 B.A. (Economics and geography): University of South Africa 1976 B.Sc. (Civil engineering): University of the Witwatersrand 1971 Field of specialisation Water supply and sanitation policy and research; Institutional development; Infrastructure management and finance; Municipal services policy and planning; Strategic planning for local authorities; Public transport finance. Organisational affiliations Professional career 1973 to 1988: Working for civil engineering consultants Ninham Shand Inc and Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners (Africa) on design and contract management of rural roads, water resources development, water supply systems, wastewater systems and treatment works projects in South Africa, Botswana and Malawi. 1989: Seconded to Development Bank of Southern Africa for a year, working in project funding assessments for urban development projects in South Africa and Lesotho. 1990 to present: Founding partner of Palmer Development Group (PDG), former managing director, director and currently associate of PDG. Project 1 Curriculum Vitae : Ian Palmer leader on over 100 policy, research and strategic planning projects during this period. Other NGO and academic activities Trustee of Mvula Trust for 13 years, 10 of which spent as Deputy Chairperson. (The Trust is a national NGO financing and facilitating water and sanitation service provision to rural communities in South Africa, employing about 80 people, with a turnover of about R35 million a year). Currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town attached to the African centre for Cities. Membership of professional institutions Fellow of the South African Institution of Civil engineers; Fellow of the Water Institute of Southern Africa. Summary of recent experience by sector Water supply and sanitation (2004 – present) Project leader and project oversight on numerous research projects for the Water Research Commission dealing with technical service options, institutional arrangements and financial arrangements associated with water services. Specialist advisor on hygiene promotion cost effectiveness study in Uganda, for the WSP Africa programme. Project leader on Dept of Water Affairs policy informing water services provision SA, including policy on free basic water and sanitation. Content leader on review of water board tariffs. Project leader on projects dealing with municipal partnerships and water board restructuring. Review of institutional arrangements in Mozambique, including major cities, for World Bank. Oversight of the development of financial models for water supply and sanitation investment planning and tariff setting in South Africa. Project leader on strategic planning projects for municipalities with an emphasis on financial analysis including capital and operations financing. Development and application of financial models for state-owned water and sanitation companies in Zambia, including Lusaka. Capital funding assessment for small urban water systems in Uganda. Financing of infrastructure and municipal services (2004 – present) Lead consultant on the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Framework (MIIF) for SA over 5 rounds of its evolution between 1997 to present. Member of an international team undertaking a review of the municipal fiscal framework for South Africa for National Treasury (2004-06), including development of a municipal finance model for the country and specific types of municipality, inter-governmental relations, subsidy policy and tariff policy. Project leader on local government fiscal framework review (2012). Development of tariff policy and free basic services policy for the Dept of Cooperative Governance. Consultant to SA government on capital grants policy. Project advisor on infrastructure investment and financial viability projects for eThekwini, Nelson Mandela and Cape Town metros. Project leader on projects for City of Jo’burg to assess pro-poor tariff policies, and develop financial component of the city’s growth and development framework. Project advisor on South African capital transfers policy and evaluations including specific assessments of Municipal Infrastructure Grant and Urban Settlements Development Grant. Team leader on a DFID funded review of land based financing for urban infrastructure in SubSaharan Africa, including case studies in Ethiopia and Kenya. 2 Curriculum Vitae : Ian Palmer Inter-governmental relations (2007 – present) Team leader on project to review of the functions of sub-national government in South Africa as part of the overall policy review for provincial and local government. Team leader on development of the functions framework for provinces and local government in SA. Policy advisor on local government performance benchmarking. Urban development (2005 – present) Project advisor on the development of a Regional Economic Model suitable for application by municipalities, for DBSA. Project leader on project for eThekwini to apply the Regional Economic Model, linked to their Social Accounting Matrix. Contributor to development of a spatial efficiency model for SA cities. Team leader on Soweto investment framework project. Project leader on township economics assessment, for Urban Landmark. Roads and public transport (2005-present) Worked for SA Dept of Transport Public transport ‘Battle Plan’, dealing with financial aspects associated with high level strategy to roll out mass transit systems in SA cites. Developed proposals on financial and institutional arrangements relating to municipal roads, for DBSA and Dept of Cooperative Government. Developed financial models for public transport planning in SA cities for DBSA and City of Cape Town. Medium term expenditure models for roads in Nelson Mandela Metro and Mangaung. Roads and public transport analysis for Western Cape and Gauteng infrastructure frameworks. Electricity and energy (2007 – present) Project oversight on projects dealing with restructuring of electricity sector in South Africa. Application of financial models dealing with electricity investment planning in SA municipalities. Energy sector modelling for Western Cape Government. Tariff policy assessment for Business Unity SA. Energy modelling for Gauteng Infrastructure Framework Environment and climate change (2011-present) Content leader on economic analysis for assessment of mitigation measures on greenhouse gas emissions (all sectors), for Department of Environment Affairs. Project leader on Western Cape energy-related greenhouse gas emissions study. Project leader on national evaluation of the design of environmental programmes, for Department of Environment Affairs. 3