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About Caspervandertak Consulting

Casper van der Tak is a trained development and environmental economist, who started his working career at the Netherlands Economics Institute in Rotterdam. Casper has been living in China since April 1999, first working for UNIDO, then as free-lancer and for a joint venture that he co-founded with Chinese partners. In 2004, he founded Caspervandertak Consulting, a privately owned consulting company registered in the Netherlands, with its main business and offices in Asia.
Our Service Concept:

We provide services in the field of Energy, Environment and Economics, offering our clients a combination of speed, high quality and low costs. We achieve this through a unique combination of:
 

Local Presence

We aim to provide our clients the convenience of a local presence. Our core markets are China and Mongolia, and that is where our offices are. Caspervandertak Consulting has offices in Beijing and Lanzhou in China. Green Energy Co., Ltd, our wholly owned subsidiary company, is based in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar.

Our local presence helps us to provide our clients with the best possible services for the least costs, through:

In depth in-house knowledge of local customs, policies and regulations.
Whenever you hire us, you do not need to pay us for collecting basic information. We can build on our past work and will immediately get on with the real work, saving you time and money;
Access to policymakers and key informers.
For some assignments, we not only need to know the current policies and regulations, we also need to know how these may develop over time. We don't need to waste time looking for sources of information on discussions about future policy directions, we know who we should contact to get information on the latest policy discussions;
Access to reliable local experts.
In our work areas, we know reliable local experts who are able to provide high-quality work on time and for a reasonable price.

 
Result-oriented

Our objective is to achieve results useful for our clients - directly implementable recommendations, project designs that can be immediately funded, or access to financing on favorable conditions, using for example CDM and/or soft loans. In line with this philosophy, we are often willing to accept assignments on a success fee basis, which means that we get paid only if we are successful in achieving a well-defined result. We put our money where our tongue is.

 
Cost-effective
Our aim is to provide our clients with low-costs services, by saving on non-essential costs. We have low overhead, and make use of local resources wherever we can without compromising on quality. Our experts are based in China, so we avoid some transportation and living costs. For those reasons, our costs are low, and our quality to price ratio is high.
 
Our profile
Since our establishment we have already been active in several countries and sectors. Click below for:
Our expertise

Our areas of expertise are macroeconomics, development economics, environmental economics and energy economics. We are particularly strong in the areas of:

  • CDM project identification
  • Climate change policy analysis and formulation
  • Impact assessment of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  • Environmental policy analysis formulation
  • Valuation of the environment
  • Advise on sustainable development
  • Cost Benefit analysis and preparation of feasibility studies
  • Renewable energy policy analysis and policy formulation, in particular relating to green certificate systems
  • Renewable energy project formulation
  • Energy efficiency project formulation
  • Growth theory
  • Technology and innovation policy
  • Trade modeling and trade policy
  • Monitoring and evaluation
 
Our clients
We work for different types of clients: Donor organizations, companies, and the local government. Examples of our clients are:

Donor organizations:

  • DANIDA - The development cooperation organization of Denmark
  • IOB - The Policy and Operation Evaluation Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Senter / EVD - The agency for export promotion of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs
  • European Commission - in particular the EC organizations in charge of external relations and development cooperation.
  • USAID - the development cooperation organization of the USA
  • Global Village Energy Partnership

Companies

  • Philips Medical Systems
  • Monsan
  • Shanwei Jihua
  • Gansu Jieyuan
  • Several hydropower companies

Asian government organizations

  • China's Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO) of SEPA (State Environmental Protection Administration)
  • China's Hydropower Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources
  • Mongolia's Ministry of Nature and Environment
 
Countries

Since 2004, we worked in:

  • China
  • Mongolia
  • Tajikistan
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam

We will later in 2005 and 2006 also work in:

  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Turkmenistan