Ms. Helveg Petersen has extensive experience in most sectors and overall economic and development issues. In recent years she has specialised in energy: financial and economic aspects of the sector, pricing, subsidies and tariffs, institutional/financial structure and pitfalls, renewable energy and rural electrification institution building. Ms. Helveg Petersen combines a solid comprehension of economic aspects of technical and institutional issues with insight into the sector’s role in the overall economy. Another expertise is public financial management issues (budget execution and tracking systems, how to combine input and results-budgeting, treasury functions, controls and government’s revenue side). In addition, during her career she has worked with private sector and SME development, finance, agriculture, water and transport, often in combination, and all aspects of the project and programming cycle.

Furthermore:

• solid administrative skills based on thirteen years with international development organisations

• proven ability to work in difficult institutional and political circumstances

• capacity to operate in diverse linguistic and cultural environments

• a critical approach that attempts to synthesize from the specific country situation to the general so as to be able to draw adequately on experiences gained elsewhere.