Esa Nieminen; chief executive and lead expert
Sectors of work
- energy sector: power and CHP plants; fossil and renewable (solar, wind, bioenergy, geothermal)
- forest and chemical industries, oil refining
- transportation of oil, oil products and gas, including pipelines and terminals, gas distribution
- energy efficiency
- district heating
Project countries
- Finland
- several years’ experience in the FSU and Central Eastern Europe; over six years in Ukraine, long-term assignments in Russia, Moldova, Georgia; work experience also in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus; Germany and Turkey
Specific expertise
- investment project management, evaluation, supervision and monitoring; experience with all investment project phases from feasibility studies to design, procurement, contracting, commissioning and start-up
- management of international project teams
- management of projects for international donor organisations (such as the EU), as well as for IFIs (EBRD, EIB, ADB)
- financial, economic, technical, legal and regulatory, risk analysis of projects
- work on financing of projects; financing sources and procedures, feasibility studies, Due Diligence, financial modelling
- multidisciplined engineering experience
- in-depth knowledge of quality infrastructure
- high-level management positions (vice-president, board member)
- establishment, development and management of engineering companies