CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Antti Petri TALVITIE
PROFESSION: Transport Management Expert, Psychoanalyst, and Professor of Transportation
NATIONALITY: Finland
SUMMARY: Mr. Talvitie is a transportation consultant and psychoanalyst. Previously he worked in the World Bank; as Director of Highway Construction and Maintenance in the Finnish Road Administration; and in the private sector. He was a Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department in the State University on New York at Buffalo, and Professor (Emeritus) at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
As a self-employed consultant working for Consultancies, and International Financing Institutions mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and China. Important assignments include:
- Technical Adviser for the financier banks in E-18 PPP project in Finland, for which he also carried out Due Diligence.
- Team member in the World Bank’s evaluation of the Bank’s Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC) Strategy
- Team member in the World Bank’s Fee-Based service contracts to Bulgaria, Poland, Kuwait, Russia, and Romania.
- Project assignments in Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, India, Russia, and Latin American countries.
- Team member in a PPP consultancy service for the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance in the transport sector.
- Team member in Consultancy Services for the design of enhanced business and change management processes for Road Asset Management in Nigeria.
- Carried out Project Performance Assessments (PPAR) and Implementation Completion Reports (ICR) in several countries for the World Bank, and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
- Consultant for World Bank loan to establish PPP procedures in China
- Lead evaluator of the World Bank’s Multidonor Trust Fund for Mobility and Logistics (MOLO) Evaluation
As World Bank staff, Program Team Leader for Romania, Armenia, and Georgia transport programs. Task Team Leader for the Azerbaijan Highway project, and a team member in a rural development project in Romania and a highway project in Russia. Lead evaluator of China’s Transport Sector Program and numerous Project Performance Assessments (PPAR) and Implementation Completion Reports (ICR) for Romania, Thailand, Indonesia, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Jamaica, Uganda, Tanzania, Jordan, China, Yemen, and Pakistan.