Véronique Buisson

Teaching Associate Professor, Finance Department

Doctorat, Université Paris IX-Dauphine.
Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), Université Paris IX-Dauphine.
Diplôme, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales.
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris.

Project finance.

Consultant in international finance (COFACE, Ministries, firms and others), mostly in the framework of executive training programs.

Before March, 1991: Financial Advisor, Finance Advisory Department, French Board for Foreign Trade for 6 years.

From March, 1991 to 1993: Project Manager with Lion Propeco, a 100 % subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais which helps French and western companies expand into Central & Eastern European Markets. Responsibilities included:

1) Industrial and economic investigations
2) Identification and accreditation of prospective local partners
3) Project appraisal (joint-ventures, 100 % subsidiaries, others)
4) Assessment of financing requirements
5) Evaluation of partner's industrial plant (or part of plant if in "Combinat")
6) Provision of legal and contractual substance to agreements
7) Setting up and/or strengthening the structure to support the investment
8) Assistance in financing projects (equipment, working capital, market drives, other...).

France: French public financing schemes (export credits, CODEX, fiscal 39 octies (reserve for taxation); French-Hungarian & French-Polish protocols
managed by Credit National (joint-ventures).

EEC: JOPP procedure (Joint-venture Operational Phare Programme), Banque Européenne d'Investissement.

Multinational organizations, such as IFC or EBRD (Banque Européenne de Reconstruction & de Développement), through appropriate local institutions.

Guarantees (exports and investments)
. French COFACE and SOFARIS
. MIGA (World Bank Group).

Companies: Mid-sized firms and big groups (French, American, and Swiss companies).

Countries: Poland, Hungary, ex-Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania.
-Specific expertise on CIS Countries.