Prospect Staff
The current staff is:
Management
Eric EVRARD (EEV), Co-Chairman
Pascal LARDINOIS (PLA), Co-Chairman
Programme Staff
Robert ATKINSON (RAT), Senior Adviser
Julia BAILLY (JBA), Project Manager
Manuel HARCHIES (MHA), Project Manager, Framework Contracts Director
Hans JOCHEMS (HJO), Project Manager
Laura KUEN (LKU), Project Manager
Darline VELGHE (DVE), Project Manager
Administrative Staff
Ana OLIVEIRA (AOL), Administration Manager
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Eric EVRARD (EEV), Co-Chairman
Eric is a bio-engineer, holding a degree in agronomical engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1985). He also has a certificate in Project Cycle Management (1998). He has more than 20 years of experience and his fields of expertise are the co-ordination of multi-national projects and programmes, the methodological aspects of follow-up and evaluation and tendering.
Eric is one of the two Co-Chairmen of Prospect. He is presently the Team Leader of the Astrale LIFE Team that assists the European Commission DG Environment in the follow-up of LIFE projects in the whole EU territory and in the EU’s neighbouring countries.
Eric’s professional career started in Africa where from 1986 until 1992 he was involved in relief and rural development projects in Chad (AICF), Mauritania (Oxfam Belgium), Tunisia (ITTA) and Guinea-Bissau (Solidarité Socialiste).
Back in Brussels, he joined the European Environment Agency Task Force, where he managed projects aiming to facilitate the membership of future Member States to the European Environment Agency. He then co-founded Prospect C&S in 1994.
Since then Eric has been responsible for the development and management of several of Prospect’s ‘flagship’ projects, including: team leader of the Astrale Life Team (2005 – ongoing), team leader for the set-up of the European Topic Centre for Terrestrial Environment in Barcelona (2001-2002), team leader for support to Phare Countries to prepare for EEA membership and Co-ordinator of the Phare EEA/CORINE Project.
Eric is Belgian and speaks French and English.
Pascal LARDINOIS (PLA), Co-Chairman
Pascal is a bio-engineer by training and he holds an agronomical engineering degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1985). He has over 20 years of experience and his fields of expertise are the support to organizational development and project management in the field of environment and sustainable development.
Pascal is one of the two Co-Chairmen of Prospect and is responsible for strategic planning and organisational change.
After spending several years working in Africa on rural development and aquaculture projects, notably in Burkina Faso for SLCD (1986-1988) and in Madagascar for FAO (1989-1992), he co-founded Prospect C&S in 1994. He has contributed to the set-up and development of the company in the environment and rural development sectors.
Since then his professional work has taken him to Central Asia, the Balkans, Caucasus and more recently to the Comoros Archipelago, always in the field of environment and sustainable development. In this time he has developed specialisations in sustainable development indicators (SDI) and in organisational development methodologies.
Some of his projects include: consultant to EuroStat on SDI (2003-2005, 2007), organisational development consultant for the international organisations REC Hungary (2006-2009) and CAREC Kazakhstan (2000 and 2007), project manager for development of ECAT Tirana (2002-2003) and project co-ordinator for the Management of the Forestry Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000-2001).
Pascal is Belgian and speaks both French and English.
Robert ATKINSON (RAT), Senior Adviser
Robert is a maritime geographer by training, he holds a BSc (Hons) in Maritime Studies from the University of Wales (1990) and he is a candidate for an MSc in Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (Ashridge Business School, UK). He has 20 years of experience and is specialised in project development, project management, civil society support, capacity building (education and training) and organisational development.
Robert joined Prospect as Senior Adviser in February 2009; he is tasked with supporting the strategic, business and organisational development of the company.
He started his working career at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1988-1989) and then the World Conservation Union’s East European Programme (1990-1991) in Cambridge, UK. From 1991 to 1995 he was Programme Manager at East West Environment, managing environment and democracy projects in Central and Eastern Europe. For thirteen years (1995-2008) Robert worked at the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Hungary, for four of those years he was Director for Civil Initiatives (2004-2008).
He has worked on a multitude of environment and civil society projects in more than thirty countries, primarily in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and has written or contributed to over twenty civil society or environmental education publications.
Projects he was responsible for developing or managing include: development of Aarhus Centres Guidelines for OSCE (2009); the Course for Sustainability, a training programme for government officials (2005-2008); the SECTOR programme, a four-year, 3.7 million Euro programme of support for civil groups in South Eastern Europe (2005-2008); the Green Pack, a multi-media environmental education kit in 11 countries (2002-2008); and the Regional Environmental Accession Project (2000-2001).
Robert is British and speaks English.
Julia BAILLY (JBA), Project Manager
Julia has a BSc. and a MSc. of bio-engineering in agronomy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003 and 2006). She also has a certificate in Project Cycle Management (2008). Her expertise covers carbon balance and energy issues, the development of project tenders, and co-ordination of international expert teams.
Julia has worked as a Project Manager at Prospect since January 2007. She is in charge of monitoring of opportunities, tender preparation and studies in the field of environment and intelligent energy.
For Prospect she has contributed to several key projects, including: the development a carbon emissions measurement methodology for the Belgian Technical Co-operation (2008-2009) and a project for EACI that developed an inventory of tools and guidebooks covered by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme (2008).
Julia is Belgian and speaks French, Spanish, Italian and English.
Manuel HARCHIES (MHA), Project Manager, Framework Contracts Director
Manu is a bio-engineer by training, holding a degree in agronomical engineering with a specialisation in land management from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2006). He also has a certificate in Project Cycle Management (2008). Manu has 3 years of experience and his fields of expertise are: land management, biodiversity and nature protection. He has also a strong experience in management of international projects and the methodological and financial follow-up.
Manu has been a project manager at Prospect since September 2007. He is in charge of the activities linked to EuropeAid framework contracts (Lot 1 - Rural Development, Lot 6 – Environment, Lot 7 - Governance and Home Affairs and Lot 12 - Humanitarian Aid, Crisis Management and Post-Crisis assistance) and, tender development and G.I.S. activities.
Manu’s professional career started in Africa where he was involved in 2006-2007 in various internships and voluntary works related to rural development and nature conservation in Cameroon (APESS), Chad (CIRAD), Senegal (FAPAL, Narou Heuleuk) and Niger (CIRAD).
Since January 2009, Manu is monitoring LIFE Nature projects in Belgium and Luxemburg on a part-time basis. In December 2008 Manu was contracted as junior expert for the project: European Environment Agency (EEA) – Study and recommendations on Air Quality Data Modelling and Exchange.
Manu is Belgian and speaks French, English and Spanish.
Hans JOCHEMS (HJO), Project Manager
Hans graduated as bio-engineer; specialised in biochemistry and genetics at the University of Ghent (1997).
Hans worked as a risk analyst in the food industry before joining the scientific staff at the Institute for Nature and Forestry Research in Brussels, where he worked for six years until 2004. Studying aquatic ecosystems he enhanced his knowledge of GIS techniques, geo-databases, environmental research and nature conservation.
From 2004 until 2010 Hans was project coordinator for the LIFE project DANAH, covering every possible aspect of nature management on 12 active military areas in Flanders. In this project he was responsible for management planning, tendering, accounting and reporting of DANAH being the largest LIFE Nature project within the European Union.
He has worked for Prospect C&S since July 2010 and is in charge of the follow-up of 10 LIFE projects apart from tender development. He is part of the monitoring team ASTRALE and monitors LIFE environment and LIFE Nature projects in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Hans is Belgian and speaks Dutch, French and English.
Laura KUEN (LKU), Project Manager
Laura holds a Master's degree in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (2006) and a bi-lingual (French-English) bachelor's degree. She also obtained a certificate in international co-operation from the Belgian Technical Co-operation in 2008.
Laura joined Prospect as a project manager in good governance in April 2010. Her main task is to develop the good governance project portfolio of the company. She is in charge of activities related to EuropeAid framework contracts, particularly projects related to Lot 7: Governance and Home Affairs, and Lot 12: Humanitarian Aid, Crisis Management and Post Crisis assistance.
She started her professional career in Latin America, where she followed a development internship in Ecuador. Following this she worked as a consultant for the UNDP Brussels Office nd the UNOPS EU Liaison Office, where she was in volved in supporting the EUElection Observation Mission to Afghanistan in 2009.
Laura is Belgian and speaks French, English and Spanish.
Darline VELGHE (DVE), Project Manager
Darline graduated as a bio-engineer in land and forest management. After six-months of volunteering in a reforestation project in Ecuador she started working with a small NGO that specialised in reforestation and sustainable forest management in Flanders. Her main tasks related to developing and running awareness raising campaigns. In 2009 she joined the forestry department at Ghent University, doing research on the economic and ecological implications of various harvest methods in small-scale forestry.
She joined Prospect in July 2010 as a project manager, where she is a part of the Astrale team, and monitors LIFE projects in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Darline is Belgian and speaks Dutch, English, French and Spanish.
Ana OLIVEIRA (AOL), Administration Manager
Ana holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences from the Technical University of Lisbon (2004). She also obtained a certificate in Project Methodology in Social Sciences (2007).
Ana joined Prospect as an Administration Manager in July 2009. Since then, she has been assigned to support both the Astrale LIFE Co-ordination Team and Prospect Management. It is her task to deliver administrative support on ongoing projects, assist Prospect in maintaining internal and external communication and overseeing contract accountancy matters.
Her career began in Portugal in the field of Social Sciences, Social Gerontology and Immigration within NGOs. Following this, she contributed to several social inclusion, environment and conservation programmes in Belgium as a European volunteer for the Youth in Action programme. She has also worked as a Project Office Co-ordinator within the express and logistics industry.
A Portuguese native, Ana speaks Portuguese, English and French fluently and has a proficient understanding of Dutch and Spanish.