Expert, administrative capacity
Public administration adviser
Moldova
Municipal administrative capacity and project preparation in candidate countries.
Working languages English, Romanian, Russian
The network
Experts
Practitioners who support ESCA work: assessments, project structuring, teaching and analysis. They are engaged for specific work and are subject to the same conflict of interest rules as ESCA staff.
Where experts work
Five areas of engagement.
- Project Accelerator Project structuring and technical requirements. 4
- City Readiness Assessment across the ten dimensions. 4
- Academy Programme design and teaching. 4
- Intelligence Analysis, briefs and peer review. 1
- Accession Cities Preparation work in candidate countries. 2
Expertise
By sector
Listed by the work they do rather than by seniority. Named profiles are published once each expert has confirmed their entry.
Expert, climate adaptation
Adaptation planner
Greece
Urban heat and flood adaptation in Mediterranean and continental contexts.
Working languages English, Greek, French
Expert, district heating
Consulting engineer
Denmark
Network decarbonisation, low-temperature conversion and large heat pump integration.
Working languages English, Danish, German
Expert, municipal finance
Public finance specialist
Austria
Financing structures for municipal infrastructure, including blending and lending.
Working languages English, German
Expert, public procurement
Procurement lawyer
Poland
EU procurement law applied to complex technology and infrastructure contracts.
Working languages English, Polish
Expert, water networks
Independent adviser
Croatia
Non-revenue water reduction and district metering in south-eastern European networks.
Working languages English, Croatian
Expert, urban data governance
Data governance adviser
Netherlands
Municipal data governance, data clauses in platform contracts and open data publication.
Working languages English, Dutch
Join the expert network
ESCA engages practitioners, not generalists.
The network needs people who have run the procurement, operated the system or written the application. If that is you, the office would like to hear from you.