Laubscher, Jacques Botes, Francois Mcdonald, Andrew
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SPEAKER PROFILES Laubscher, Jacques GIBB MCDonald, ANDREW Arup Jacques Laubscher is a senior associate at Gibb and Andrew has recently joined Arup as a senior engi- head of the Northern Water division. He is respon- neer in the water infrastructure team. Prior to this, sible for business development for the Water divi- he was in the asset management team at Thames sion in the integrated infrastructure sector. He Water Utilities in the UK. Andrew has a MSc Hydrol- holds a B.Eng. Hons from the University of Stellen- ogy from Imperial College, andis a chartered water bosch as well as a Certificate in Advanced Procure- and environmental manager with 11 years of expe- ment and Supply Chain Management from Unisa. rience in the UK water sector. He has extensive ex- He is a member of SAICE, IMESA and WISA. He has perience in utility business operations and infra- 35 years’ experience in both the private and public structure asset management. His broad range of sectors, with a special interest in supply chain management. In recent cross-functional skills, qualifications and experiences enable him to de- years, he has provided consulting services and training in this field to a velop sustainable and effective solutions to a client’s water and number of local authorities. asset challenges. He has a holistic understanding of all aspects of the water cycle, includ- Botes, Francois Hatch Goba ing aquatic systems and catchment management, water and wastewater treatment, reticulation assets and processes, capital investment planning, Dr Francois Botes has 24 years’ professional experi- strategy and policy development, risk assessment, auditing, and capital ence in providing specialist financial and economic programme management. Furthermore, he has managed technical teams advice in the transport sector. He has undertaken and projects and has a proven ability to drive and manage performance, assignments for private, government and interna- identify improvements and implement change. tional agency clients in 10 countries. Francois is a specialist in leveraging engineering, planning, op- erational, environmental and other technical in- COLEMAN, GARETH UWP Consulting puts for financial and economic modelling. Gareth Coleman is an accomplished leader and Before joining Hatch Goba early in 2014, Francois managed a team of traf- strategist in regional economic development, busi- fic engineers, transport planners, Placemaking professionals, travel de- ness development and corporate governance. His mand modellers and economists as regional team executive at Parsons career has focused upon developing policy and Brinckerhoff Australia. During this time he positioned the Melbourne strategy, and then building the administrative and Transport Planning Team as a truly integrated transport advisory group organisational capacity required for the govern- covering traffic engineering, economics and planning in passenger and ance and delivery of these policies and strategies freight markets for the full spectrum of land-based transport modes (road, in both the public and private sectors, in and out- rail, pipeline, shipping and non-motorised transport). side of South Africa. As principal evaluation officer (infrastructure specialist) at the African De- Over the past 20 years, Gareth has led project teams and helped design velopment Bank’s (AfDB) Operations Evaluations department, Francois funding programmes for the delivery of public infrastructure (water, elec- was responsible for managing independent evaluations of AfDB’s infra- tricity, roads and public works) and local and regional development. He structure operations. During this time he also represented the AfDB at the has over 10 years’ hand-on experience in establishing and leading pro- Evaluation Cooperation Group (including independent evaluation depart- gramme managements units. Gareth was the project director for UWP ments of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American De- Consulting for the AbaQulusi Local Economic Development Initiative be- velopment Bank, European Investment Bank and the European Bank for tween 2010 and 2013. Between 2004 and 2009, he was the team leader of Reconstruction and Development), the Network of Networks for Impact the EU KZN LED Support Programme – a €37 million programme funded Evaluation, and the Leading Edge Group, which, under the auspices of the by the European Union–which was the first of its kind in Africa, and the Centre for Global Development, was responsible for establishing the Inter- largest EU funding commitment in South Africa at the time. national Institute on Impact Evaluation. Gareth has a Master of Town and Regional Planning, Master of Arts, and a Francois was also responsible for preparing the department’s annual postgraduate degree in economic principles. He is a Fellow of the Char- three-year work programme and budget, which included an outcome- tered Institute of Secretaries and has over 10 years of experience as the based performance monitoring mechanism that he developed. Prior to CEO/executive director of successful organisations responsible for pio- working with the AfDB, Francois was an executive associate: transport neering public-private sector partnerships in the built environment. Ga- economist at Jeffares & Green Consulting Engineers, and senior transport reth joined UWP Consulting in 2009 as their commercial director with economist at the Metropolitan Transport Planning branch of the City of responsibilities for business development, company strategy, corporate Cape Town. Here, he undertook assignments on policy, pricing and project governance, quality management and enterprise development. feasibility, either as a project manager or multidisciplinary team leader. 31 IMESA SPEAKER PROFILES STEVENS, FRANK hands-on design to project management of multidisciplinary projects. Hendrik has been responsible for a range of assignments for both Govern- eThekwini Water & Sanitation/Herrenknecht ment and private sector clients. These have included financial and risk analysis, D&C tendering, contract management, Alliancing and acting as After matriculating in Germiston, Gauteng, Frank an independent engineer and expert witness on largely water-related in- obtained his BSc Civil Engineering from the Univer- frastructure projects worldwide. Hendrik was also involved in the leader- sity of Natal in Durban. His early post-graduation ship team of a large international company, responsible for new business experience included 10 years with consultants development and client liaison in Australia and New Zealand, before join- Campbell, Bernstein and Irving and several years ing WorleyParsons. with contractors Murray and Roberts. The experi- ence gained in these early years included a mix of He was employed by Sydney Water as part of a contract management structural design and site experience, which led to a group on the 250 Mℓ/d Sydney Desalination Plant at Kurnell. Since join- five-year stint in Swaziland. ing WorleyParsons, he has been involved in projects in Indonesia, Singa- pore, Africa and Australia. Hendrik and his water team in Sydney recently His involvement with municipal engineering spans some 28 years –two finished the Water Treatment Options Study for AGL on the coal seam years as town engineer of Pinetown and the rest with eThekwini/Durban gas(CSG) flow testing programmes at Longreach, Queensland. Hendrik is Metro. He held the post of deputy head: eThekwini Water and Sanitation, currently engaged by AGL to provide a FEED design and strategy for the in charge of technical support, for the past 15 years and has recently re- Gloucester CSG project in NSW. He is also engaged with Deloitte in an Al- tired from eThekwini Municipality. Stevens is the immediate past presi- liance arrangement to win more water-related work in Australia. In South dent of the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA), Africa,he is responsible for the detail design of a SWRO plant at Saldanha. is registered with ECSA and is a Fellow Member of both SAICE and IMESA. He is also working on the 3 x 150 Mℓ/d SWRO plant concept studies for the He intends on spending the next few years assisting Herrenknecht Tun- Cape Town Council, where a pilot plant is contemplated for Cape Town at neling AG as a technical representative and guiding candidate engineers the Koeberg nuclear power plant. towards registration on a part-time basis. sibandais, GAMELIHLE Lebitsa, Montso Hatch Goba International Labour Organisation Montso Lebitsa has more than 20 years of post- Gamelihle Sibandais a civil engineer, whose profes- graduate experience. His experience spans from sional experience spans over 23 years, working in planning, conceptualisation, feasibility, design various capacities in over 12 countries –liaising and design reviews, construction and commis- with governments, infrastructure authorities, em- sioning, to asset evaluations, project manage- ployers’ organisations, unions, donors, United Na- ment and engineering due diligence. He has tions agencies, universities, consultants, contrac- worked on multinational and prestigious projects tors and communities on the policy, financing, in Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, the United feasibility, research, design, training and imple- Kingdom, Namibia and Zambia. Montso grew up mentation of infrastructure and environmental in Lesotho and graduated in Russia. His career started as a section engi- projects in both rural and urban environments. He is the chief technical neer on the Delivery Tunnel South of