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Dr. Philippe Bergeron
Director, RIET Singapore

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Dr. Bergeron's experience in Environmental Management and Technology spans some twenty five years as director and manager of environmental projects and programmes covering a wide range of "brown" environmental issues around the globe. With professional experience in 45 countries including 18 countries in Asia, Dr. Bergeron competence is far reaching with special expertise in the three key domains of environmental business development, industrial environmental management and environmental policing, planning and financing.

Holder of a chemical engineering degree in France and a Doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Dr. Bergeron started working as a project director for urban environmental infrastructure in Germany, France and other European countries. Numerous planning and programming assignments in developing North Africa, South and North Americas and Asia for the private sector and governmental and international agencies soon followed.

Prior to his current assignment by RIET in Singapore, Dr. Bergeron was director of the Asian Department of a large German consultancy group involved in many strategic studies and expert missions for the programming and auditing of environmental projects for the private sector as well as IBRD in Washington, ADB in Manila, EIB in Luxembourg and the EC in Brussels.

Since six years, Dr. Bergeron is Director of the Regional Institute of Environmental Technology (RIET) in Singapore. RIET is a cost recovery not-for-profit legal entity acting as environmental business facilitator, think tank, strategic consultancy, training organisation, publisher and programmer of high profile events across Asia that Dr. Bergeron himself designed and launched RIET with the initial support of the Singapore Government and the European Commission. RIET has a unique position on the Asian and global environmental market scene to promote and disseminate profitable environmental best practice, to facilitate private sector and business response to Asian environmental challenges and to encourage greater economic cooperation between Asian entrepreneurs and providers of environmental competence from more advanced countries.