ABOUT YOUR TRAINER:

 

Einar Risa

Former Executive Director, Timor Sea Designated Authority and

Managing Director, Diak Consulting AS 2006 

 

Einar was until the end of 2005 Executive Director of Timor Sea Designated Authority, the authority managing the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA) between Timor-Leste and Australia, appointed by the Government of Timor-Leste. He is now President of Diak Consulting AS, a consulting company within the oil and gas and energy industries, based in Oslo, Norway. He is also a Timor-Leste member of the Timor Sea Joint Commission. He served as State Secretary for International Development in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990-1. He was an advisor 1979/82 to People’s Republic of China’sMinistry of Oil and Chinese National Offshore Oil Company on questions relating to offshore legislation and offshore concessions to international oil companies. 

  

Work experience:

  • Diplomatic work (Norwegian Embassies in Lisbon and Washington, DC)
  • IEA (International Energy Agency) long-term planning
  • IEA (International Energy Agency) emergency planning
  • OPEC and oil marked analysis
  • Natural gas sales negotiations (Gullfaks, Tommeliten, Ula, Troll Spain and Troll Austria)
  • Gas pipeline project planning (Zeepipe)
  • Oil company procurementOil and gas business development in Eastern Europe
  • Export promotion
  • Project financing in developing and transitional economies
  • Maritime boundary negotiations (Timor-Leste/Australia)Oil and gas policy development (Timor-Leste)
  • Drafting of Petroleum law and regulatory framework (China and Timor-Leste)
  • Petroleum policy advisory work (China, Timor-Leste and Sudan)
  • Institutional development in the oil and gas sector (Timor Sea Designated Authority)
  • Production Sharing Contract (PSC) negotiations
  • International Development Policy (Norwegian State Secretary for Development)  

 

Work positions:

Norwegian Foreign Service 1969 – 78

  • Foreign Service Academy Graduate 1971
  • Norwegian Embassy, Lisbon 1971 – 1974; Attaché/Second Secretary of Embassy
  • Norwegian Embassy, Washington, D.C. 1974 – 76; Second Secretary of Embassy
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Energy Unit 1976 – 78; Advisor 

Statoil (Norwegian national oil company) 1978 - 93

  • International coordinator 1978 – 81
  • Head of Staff; Personnel, finance and administration staff; Refining and  marketing division 1981 – 83
  • Head of Division; Natural gas sales 1983 – 86
  • Project manager; Zeepipe 1986 – 88 (Natural gas pipeline Norwegian Continental Shelf to Belgium)
  • Information Manager; Refining and marketing division 1988 – 90
  • Project director, Business Development Eastern Europe 1990
  • Director Procurement 1991 – 93 

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1990 – 91

State Secretary for International Development Norwegian Trade Council 1993 – 98

Director Development Market 1993 – 98

Management & Finance AS 1998 – 2002

Partner 1998 – 2002

   

Appointments

  • Governor Asian Development Bank 1990 – 91
  • Governor Inter-American Development Bank 1990 – 91
  • Governor African Development Bank 1990 – 91
  • Chairman; Norwegian government – business committee to encourage Norwegian business activities in developing countries 1991 – 92
  • Member of the Board; Suldal Utviklingsselskap AS 1993 – 2000 (Municipal SME development company)
  • Chairman of the Board; Management and Finance AS 2000 – 2003
  • Member Rogaland County Business Development Council 1985 – 89
  • Member Rogaland County Agricultural Development Board 1985 – 90
  • Timor-Leste Member Timor Sea Joint Commission 2003 – 2007 

   

Assignments

  • Chairman; European Standardization Organization Committee on Attestation Standard for Procurement  
  • Conference chairman, speaker and roundtable participant at numerous seminars and conferences in Norway and internationally within the areas of oil and energy, financing and development questions
  • Permanent lecturer on Project finance in annual Petroleum Policy and Management Seminar for Third World oil company executives and petroleum sector officials
  • Advisor 1979 - 1982 to People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Oil and Chinese National Offshore Oil Company on questions relating to offshore legislation and offshore concessions to international oil companies.
  • Advisor 2006 – 2007 to Timor – Leste Minister of Natural Resources and Energy Policy on energy policy questions
  • Advisor 2006 – to Government of Sudan and  Government of Southern Sudan on petroleum issues
  • Numerous consultant assignments for Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad, Norfund, IFC and private companies in the following areas:
    • Project financing in Third world countries and Emerging economies
    • Policy instruments and government measures to support private sector development in Third world countries
    • Third world infrastructure financing
  • Evaluations of concrete SME projects in Emerging economies