Gatis Kristaps

Member of Board, Finance and Law, Ardenis Ltd., Riga

Gatis Kristaps holds an MSc in Economics and a LLM in Law and Finance. In the role of a business consultant he has 15 years of practical experience in development of transport infrastructure projects and providing services to transport sector undertakings for multiple funding organizations including the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and others. The special areas include sea ports, airports, railways and public transport. The type of services provided include financial due diligence, cost-benefit analysis, service demand analysis, legal analysis, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of individual projects, strategy development.

The expert has 9 years on the ground experience in State aid including elaboration of individual State aid notifications and consultations on State aid related issues in the transport sector.