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Hans-Arild has extensive international experience from various power market design and trading arrangements since 1992 where he was involved in developing the first market systems at Nord Pool. Hans-Arild has been working supporting the power industry with consultancy, advice, implementation and IT services connected to the establishment, design, regulations, implementation and operation of both national and regional power markets in more than 20 countries/regions stretching from California, China and Japan via India and the Gulf region to Eastern and Southern Africa. Based on the experience from the Nordic market bundled with a broad international experience, he is able to provide assistance to market operators, regulatory authorities and system operators on how to implement a power market based on sound economics taking into account the local conditions. He has a detailed insight in all EU market regulations, not only from a theoretical perspective, but also from an implementation and operational perspective. He has been one of the key partners in the development of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) and was the project lead for the development of the new trading platform for SAPP as well as its recently added Balancing Market. He has been closely involved in the evolution of the SAPP markets for the last two decades and has detailed insight in its markets and background for its solutions. In the last years, Hans-Arild has also been engaged with EAPP where he was the project manager for their market design as well as a project on capacity building and now their implementation of the market itself. In addition, for the last 5 years, he has been engaged in the South African market reform process through three different engagements for key stakeholders in South Africa. He is also currently supporting the Zambian Open Access regulation and was also engaged in the establishment of the Modified Single Buyer in Namibia as well as Uganda and starting the support for the national market in Kenya. Hans-Arild is the CEO of Bredesen Consulting as well as a board member at International Centre for Hydropower and a guest lecturer at both Wits Business School and the University of Cape Town.