Reinier Lock has extensive experience in the fields of infrastructure project finance and development, especially in the energy industries; and in the related fields of sector restructuring and reform, privatization and regulation, primarily in the fields of energy and water; and but also in the fields of mining and transportation. This work has included extensive experience in energy in the US Government at the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in the 1980s; and, since the early 1990s, extensive work internationally, especially in Africa, in the infrastructure areas for the private sector and for the international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
This work has also included extensive representation of developers, investors and host government entities in the fields of both project development and of sector reform and privatization. A special recent emphasis of this work has been the challenge of establishing effective mechanisms for corporate governance, combating corruption, and for ensuring corporate social responsibility of both private sector companies and State-owned enterprises, in the energy and water fields, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reinier has been active in leadership positions in bar associations since the early 1980s, including the American Bar Association and, since the early 1990s, the International Bar Association (IBA), in which he recently completed his two-year term as Chair of the new, expanded Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) of the restructured IBA. He also continues to run the principal IBA conference on Project Finance every two years in Washington, the next due in April 2007; and he has lectured widely in that area.
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