Office:

Metschies Consult

Im Bruehl 26

65835 Liederbach

Germany

Phone:

+49 - 173 815 82 99

+49 - 69 - 460 90 321

+49 - 6742 - 843 70 91

E-mail:

gerhard.metschies@gmx.de

consult@metschies.com

Websites:

www.metschies.com

www.metschies.com/downloads

Date

University

Graduation

4.1

1960-1967

University of Aachen, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Germany

Graduation to Dipl.-Ing.

(Civil Engineer, M. Sc.)

4.2

1975-1977

Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Graduation to Dr. techn. (Ph.D.),

Thesis on “Rural road construction in developing countries”

4.3

since 2000

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Graduation to Dr. techn. (Ph.D.)

Language

Level

Passive

Spoken

Written

German

Mother tongue

5

5

5

English

5

5

5

French

5

4

4

Country

Date

Position

8.1

Kyrgyzstan

05/2001 and 08/2001

Advisor Ministry of Finance

8.2

Palestine

8/1999 and 5/2000

Financial Road Expert

8.3

Ethiopia

08/1972 - 07/1975

Professor for Highway Engineering

8.4

Rwanda

04/1972 - 08/1972

Resident Engineer

8.5

Burkina Faso

05/1968 - 06/1970

Resident Engineer

Date

Location

Company

Position

9.1

since

2004

Liederbach / Germany

Metschies Consult, International Transport and Energy Consulting (www.metschies.com)

Director of Metschies Consult, Senior Consulting Engineer

(self employed)

9.2

1988 - 2004

Eschborn / Germany

GIZ, German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Infrastructure Division www.giz.de/en/html/index.html

Senior Consulting Engineer for International Road Transport (Financing, Organisation, Maintenance)

-   January 2005, ABU DHABI, environment conference ("Sustainable Transport Financing in Asian Cities")

-   November 2004, GTZ, International Conference on User-financed Infrastructure for Transport ("From Administration to Business - Benchmarking Road Organizations and Road Finance")

-   October 2004, CHINA IRF-Silk Road Conference ("Country - specific solutions for provincial and rural road networks"), Xian

-   April 2003, EBRD-, RUSSIA, Study ("Heavy Vehicle Charges - Vignettes - in the Russian Federation"). Organizing International study tour and Seminar on HV charges

-   September 2002 Cambridge UK, PTRC European Transport Conference, 2 presentations ("Financing urban roads in DCs”)

-   September 2002, NEPAL, ICIMOD Conference ("Organization and stage construction of rural roads / "Green Roads")

-   May 2002, World Bank ECA, Desk Study "Financing Roads in East European and Central Asian ECA countries - Present Status and future options (114 p.)"

-   IRF - International Road Federation, TRACECA-Conference Ashgabat/Turkmenistan: presentation on financing

-   2002, and May 2001 Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan: GTZ/MoF/WB, PIU-Advisor to MoF (Study on "Financing Urban Roads in Kyrgyzstan"). Organization and contributions to 2 National Seminars on Urban Roads Financing

-   October 2001, ROMANIA, 2nd IRF - Stability Pact Conferences ("Institutional issues of road networks in transition countries"), Bucharest

-   June 2001, Windheok/NAMBIA; GTZ, International Conference on Urban Infrastructure, organization and contributions ("Urban roads - financing and organization in Eastern and Southern Africa")

-   October 2001, IRF Asset Management Seminar, Arlington/Virginia US, ("Balance Sheets for Road Networks")

-   March 2001, MANILA, Asian Dev. Bank ADB, Road Funds for the Asian countries), contribution: "Survey and experiences with Latin American Road Funds"

-    December 2000, UN-ESCAP, INDIA Transport Pricing Seminar ("Present Taxation Levels on Fuel and Vehicles in Asia") Virgyan Bavan New Delhi

-   1998/1999 WESTBANK, DornierConsult-WB, Road Financing Expert for the Palestinian Roads Authority, Ramallah

-   1998 OECD-RUSSIA, Transport conference for Middle Siberia, ("Goods Transport Analysis for Russian Railways") Krasnoyarsk

-   1998, UN-ESCAP/WB, Infrastructure Financing in the Central Asian Republics, Bangkok

-   1997 GTZ-USBEKISTAN, Seminar on Airport Privatization, organization and contribution, Tashkent

-   1996 OECD-TURKEY, Transport Conference for Black See Countries, (presentation plus seminar clinic), Istanbul

-   December 1995, EU/-World Bank-GTZ RUSSIA, Transport Sector Seminar for FSU countries, Moscow

-   1993, GTZ, USBEKISTAN West European Study Tour for top transport officials (to Istanbul, Brussels, Bonn, Berlin and Prag), organization and personal guidance

-   1992, UGANDA Road Maintenance Initiative, Phase II,
National Awareness Seminar Kampala

-   1992, RWANDA, Road Maintenance Initiative, Phase II,
National Awareness Seminar Kigali

-   1993 UZBEKISTAN Transport Sector Seminar for Prime Minister Office, Tashkent

-   1993/93 BULGARIA Transport Sector reform in Sofia

-   1995 and 1996 UZBEKISTAN Seminars for the Commercialization of Airports in Tashkent

-   1990, 1986, 1982, GERMANY Transport Fair (Organization and contribution to GTZ-Transport Seminars for developing countries), München

-   1991, 1993 and 1995, 1998 and 2000 AFRICA Road Transport Taxation Surveys of GTZ (Contribution to Draft World Bank Working Paper N°6)

-   Transport Fair München in the years 1982, 1986, 1990 (GTZ-Seminars for 120 participants each)

9.3

1986-2002

Kyrgyzstan, Senegal, Guinea, Russia, Thailand

World Bank, OECD, IRF, PIARC

Consultant to World Bank Missions, Lecturer for Conferences

Description

Missions to the aforementioned countries: Road Transport Sector Review and Transport Sector Policy.

9.4

1981 - 1987

Eschborn/Germany

GTZ GmbH

Project Officer for management advisory projects in transport corporations and transport advisors at ministerial level

Description

-     Management Consultancy Project with the Road Transport

      Corporation RTC, Freetown / Sierra Leone

-     Consultancy project for the National Transport Corporation,

  Dar es Salaam / Tanzania

-     Société des Transports STK, Kinshasa / Zaire

-     Office des Transports du Burundi (OTRABU), Bujumbura /  

      Burundi

-     Lesotho Freight Service Corporation (LFSC), Maseru / Lesotho

-     Passenger Transport Study, Sierra Leone

-     Consultancy to the Ministry of Transport Accra / Ghana

9.5

1976 - 1987

Eschborn/Germany

GTZ GmbH

Project Officer

Description

-   GTZ member of World Bank appraisal team, road sector Guinea and road sector Senegal

-   GTZ appraisal for rural roads for Watershed project in Himachal Pradesh / India

-   Urban Roads Program (11 km) for Kigali / Rwanda

-   Staged Construction of the National Road N°7 Ihosy–Sakaraha / Madagascar (200 km)

-   Feasibility Study for the National Road Board, Mano River-Kle /

    Sierra Leone (180 km)

-   Pre-feasibility Study for a second Niger Bridge in Bamako / Mali

-   Execution Road Maintenance Project Bossembele - Garoua-Boulai / Central African Republic (480 km)

-   District Roads Rehabilitation Study Trinidad / West Indies

9.6

1968 - 1975

Germany

Rhein–Ruhr Consultant

Project Officer, Resident Engineer

Description

-   Road planning project in Kigali/Rwanda - border Burundi

    (160 km), financed by EDF

-   Elaboration of implementation plan for the road Taif – Jizan / Saudi Arabia (incl. electronic volume and staking-out calculation)

-   Resident Engineer for the road construction and pavement of the road Bobo Dioulasso - Faramana / border to Mali (100 km) financed by EDF / EEC. Technical control of contractor's works (quarries, compaction). Elaboration of a new alignment planning for an up-hill road section of about 5 km in the field.

-   Project engineer for tender documents of the road Bakel - Kidira / Senegal

Date

Location

Company

Position

10.1.

1994 - 2002

Kelkheim / Germany

Universities of Stuttgart, Zürich, Dortmund, Hildesheim, Magdeburg

Lecturer (part-time) on Road Construction in developing Countries.

Description

Infrastructure Planning Courses: Road Construction for Developing Countries. Lectures and examinations for Master Degree Course.

10.2.

1972 - 1975

Ethiopia

University Addis Ababa

Associate professor for Highway Engineering

Description

Head of Civil Engineering Department in the Faculty of Technology, Head of soil testing, concrete and asphalt laboratories. Lectures and Exams in Highway Engineering, Transport and Surveying

Date

Location

Company

Position

12.1.

1985-1996

Germany

Community of Liederbach

Member of Local Parliament, Head of Transport Committee

Description

Head of the Transport and Planning Committee of the Community: control of planning, concept and costs of all urban construction projects as roads, buildings, schools, water supply and sewage including sites and services.