Alain Fayard has over 30 years of professional experience in the transport sector, urban planning and management. Specifically, he has worked in the management of the financial and legal framework of large transportation projects, as well as in the development of strategic plans for infrastructure and public utilities. He has been responsible for establishing and managing the administrative organization of medium and large sized entities. He served as special adviser for the establishment of a new administrative and legal framework in the field of transport (Loi d'orientation des transports intérieurs) in France from 1981 to 1985. Since 1981, Alain Fayard has served as a member of the Channel Tunnel Project, where he was responsible for drawing up the concession agreement and the package of legal and financial securities; he also managed the land planning procedures on the French side, and has been a member of the intergovernmental commission since this body was set up in 1986.
Associate Professor, University of Lille, he taught transportation economics and economic public law; he also managed a postgraduate degree (DESS) in transportation and logistics; he teaches also for executive education. He acts as a consultant for different governments in the planning and regulation in the field of networks and regulation and the World Bank; e.g. he brought his contribution to the "Toolkit for private sector participation in highways" funded by the PPIAF.
Currently inspector general at the French department for transport and infrastructure, he serves as a special adviser to the general director of roads, attending especially to the issues related to project financing, the cooperation between public and private sectors, and the administrative and financial engineering and European Union issues.
He has graduated in public administration (National school of public administration (ENA), Paris), economics (University of Lille, France) business administration (I.A.E. of Lille and INSEAD) and law (University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne).
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