CAPTURE THE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES - Session II - GEORGIA - REGIONAL FRONTIER FOR GLOBAL INVESTMENTS

Ian Burrell

Media Consultant

Ian Burrell is a UK-based Media Consultant. He is the former Assistant Editor and Media Editor of The Independent, based in London, where he worked for 20 years.

He previously worked for the Sunday Times of London as an investigative reporter and for the ITV television network.

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Keti Bochorishvili

CEO, JSC Anaklia City

Counting 17 years of management experience including 7 years of her dedication to Georgia’s public sector as a senior executive, Ketevan has successfully served as vice minister of Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, under four consecutive leaderships of two democratically elected governments.

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Pankaj Birla

Area Vice President - Eastern Europe, Marriott International

Mr. Pankaj has worked for Marriott for over 20 years. After graduating from University in the US, Pankaj worked in various positions in finance on the West Coast and in Hawaii, before moving to his home country to open the first Marriott Hotel in Goa, India.

While in India, mr. Pankaj also opened the first JW Marriott hotel and Renaissance hotel in India.

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Prashant Joshi

Chief Executive Officer, Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC

Mr. Prashant Joshi took over as CEO of Adjaristsqali Georgia LLC (AGL), a joint venture company between Clean Energy Invest (Norway), TATA Power (India) and IFC Infraventures in February 2017.

As the time of his taking over as CEO, the Shuakhevi Hydropower Plant (HPP), one of the largest infrastructure investments in Georia, was nearing completion of the construction phase.

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Richard Tollis

Head of Project Finance and Infrastructure Group in EMEIA, EY

Mr. Richard is the Partner leading EY’s EMEIA Infrastructure Team in the Transactions space and has more than 20 years’ experience advising the public and private sectors on M&A, privatisation, PPPs, fund design and raising debt and equity.

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Flavia Palanza

Director Lending operations in EU Neighbouring Countries, European Investment Bank

Mrs Palanza, who holds a Master’s degree in Economics, joined the Bank in 1984.

She has spent most of her career working in different regions outside the EU, initially as an economist in the Projects Directorate, and since 2001 in the Directorate for Lending outside the EU,

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Bruno Balvanera

Director for Caucasus Moldova and Belarus, EBRD

Bruno Balvanera joined the EBRD in 1996; currently he is Director for Caucasus Moldova and Belarus, based in Tbilisi. His experience covers wide variety of sectors, countries and products.

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