Resource Persons Biography

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Dr. Sam Mensah, Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning
Edward Farquharson, Partnerships UK
Godwin Brocke, Ministry of Road Transportation
Jonathan Amoako–Baah, Volta River Authority
Govindan Nair, World Bank
Edward Yescombe, YCL Consulting Ltd, U.K
Arnold McIntyre, International Monetary Fund
David Ofosu-Dorte, AB & David Law
Andrew Porter, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, UK
Kofi N. Agyeman, CAL Bank Ltd
Justina Twumwaa Brookman-Amissah, CAL Bank Ltd.
Peter Mousley, World Bank

Edward Yescombe has over 30 years’ experience in various forms of structured finance, including project finance, leasing, export credits, property and asset finance. He has been an independent consultant on public-private partnerships and project finance since 1998 - his work has included advice to project sponsors and government entities on the financial aspects of PPP contracts, as well as on policy issues such as contract standardisation. He is the author of "Principles of Project Finance", published in 2002 (translated into Japanese, Polish, Hungarian and Russian), which is recognised as a leading work on this subject. His second book, "Public-Private Partnerships: Principles of Policy and Finance" was published in 2007 (see www.yescombe.com for information). He was previously head of project finance in Europe for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and its predecessor Bank of Tokyo. He is a law graduate of Oxford University.