Agenda
| Draft Agenda | |
| Public Private Partnership in the Water Sector | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Official Opening |
| Bulgaria’s water sector status and the strategy for its future development | |
| Dobromir Simidchiev, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Tomislav Donchev, EU Funds Minister |
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| 9:30– 11:30 | First discussion panel |
| Management Models – how to make the sector work more effectively, attract more investments, implement new technologies Successful cases |
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| Panelists: | |
| Bruno Roche, General Manager,Apa Nova Bucharest, Veolia Apa Romania Adrian Cristea, General Manager of the Municipal Authority for Regulation of Public Services, Bucharest Mark Muller, Director New Europe at Aqualia Gerhard Reibersdorfer, Managing Director, WSG |
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| Moderator: Atanaska Nikolova, Deputy Mayor, Burgas Municipality | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Q&A for PPP |
| Moderator: Radoslav Russev, Senior Consultant Water and Environment, NECA | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Networking Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Second discussion panel |
| Financing, legal framework and regulation models How to avoid mistakes and to gain successful partnership |
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| Panelists: | |
| Orlin Dikov, Senior Operations officer, World Bank Iliyana Tsanova, Senior Banker, Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure, EBRD Harald Schoelzel, Water PPP Expert, EIB Ivaylo Kolev, Аdvisor, International Finance Corporation |
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| Moderator: Ivan Ivanov, Chairman, BWA | |
| 14:00 | Closing remarks and Lunch |