Franck Sottou - Senior International Expert in Structural Funds

• Consultant and Lecturer for Managing, Certifying and Audit Authorities, Intermediate Bodies and Regional Bodies
• Preparation of SPD and OP from 1994 – 1997 – 2000 -2007 financial perspectives
• Description of management and control systems, design of implementing tools especially to define indicators, monitoring and audits systems, control and evaluations procedures for ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund, IPA, ENPI, EAFRD (Leader approach)
• Former member of Technical Assistance Team: Objective 1, Objective 2 and CIP (Urban, Leader, Equal, Interreg)

Colm Dunne - Senior International Public Sector Consultant

• Consultant and Trainer for Managing, Certifying and Audit Authorities, Intermediate Bodies and Regional Bodies
• International Expert in evaluation and capacity building to support the programming and evaluation cycles
• Technical Assistance in Romania for Programming the Administrative OP and for the ex-post evaluation of PHARE 1999-2004
• Former Head of Performance Audit for Irish Public Service

Susanne Volz - Senior Control and Audit Expert

• Consultant Partner of Inter Change Concept, a consultancy focusing on innovation in tourism and regional development

• International Expert, First Level Control in ETC Programmes

• Efficient and regular audit approaches (e.g. ENPI CBC Programmes), Optimising processes of programme bodies

• Trainer on audit, verification and simplification
• Former Audit Manager responsible for First Level Control and Second Level Control
• ERDF and ESF OPs, ETC Programmes, FP6/7, EuropeAid and other Programmes directly managed by the Commission

• 25 years evaluation experience  Plan, Programme and Project level
  
• Ex-ante Evaluator or Developer of more than 30 EU-funded Plans
  
• Programmes and Strategies  :NDP – Romania , Convergence / Objective 1 – Scotland, England, Competitiveness / Objective 2 / Urban - Scotland, England, Wales
  
• Rural Development / Leader, Scotland, England, Wales, Regional / Inter-regional, Strategies – Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, EU15
  
• Current work includes: Evaluation of ISPA / Cohesion Fund for DG REGIO, ESF Expert Network Evaluation for DG EMPL

• Over 20 years in socio-economic development & EU Structural Funds
• 1988-1990: Regional Development Agency North East England 
  
  • Local supply chain development and industrial clustering
    
• 1990-1999: DG REGIO – European Commission
  • Desk Officer implementing mainstream Structural Funds OPs – UK regions
    
  • Manager - exchange events for MAs (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Benelux)
    
• 1999-2007: UK Twinning RTA & Expert – Romania
  • National coordination of regional development
    
  • EU accession negotiations / preparation for Structural Funds
    
• 2008: EU-China Political Dialogue on Regional Development
  • Spokesperson on Environmental Dimension of EU Cohesion Policy
    
• 2009-present: Team Leader and Expert on Technical Assistance projects
  
  • Currently advising Romania and Croatia on 2014-2020 preparations