{"id":25958,"date":"2021-11-25T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:55:22","slug":"jean-christophe-ki-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/en\/jean-christophe-ki-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Christophe KI will retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a source of great satisfaction to have led one of my country\u2019s leading entities in the water and energy sector.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jean-Christophe KI will retire at the end of December 2021.<\/strong> \u201cKi de Vergnet\u201d is known by everyone in the rural hydraulics sector in Burkina Faso. He is also one of the main architects of VERGNET BURKINA\u2019s nationwide reputation. An Officer of the Order of Merit for Rural Development in Burkina Faso, Jean-Christophe has been instrumental in the growth of a company that counted seven members of staff in 2015, but has flourished and now employs 15 people (including five executives) and works with more than 300 partners (with the water management service). <em><strong>\u201cI\u2019m stepping down with a sense of mission accomplished. It\u2019s a source of great satisfaction to have led one of my country\u2019s leading entities in the water and energy sector.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Christophe is one of seven children born to a farming couple in Toma, a town 180\u00a0km northwest of Ouagadougou. He was a brilliant student and, at the age of 14, he left his family and the Upper Volta to stay with an uncle who worked as a nurse for the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Africaine de Plantation d\u2019H\u00e9v\u00e9as in Grand-Bassam (C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire). He stayed there from the time he started secondary school until he passed his baccalaureate, and nurtured a love of science.\u00a0\u201cI owe my passion for science to a French couple who taught mathematics and technology, Mr. and Mrs. CIMPER. They immediately took me under their wing and, even since, have been there during all the key moments in my life.\u201d The teenager admired the couple and wanted to become a teacher himself, but at the time, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire only recruited Ivorian teachers.<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>\u201c\u2026 enthusiastic about VERGNET BURKINA\u2019s many R&amp;D and innovation projects.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Once he\u2019d completed his maths and science baccalaureate, Jean-Christophe went on to study geology at the University of Ouagadougou, returning to Abidjan for his degree and master\u2019s in hydrogeology, followed by a <strong>post-graduate degree in mineral processing at the University of Li\u00e8ge in Belgium<\/strong>. After that, he started work in 1988, <strong>joining BRGM, the French geological survey, in Ouagadougou<\/strong>. As a young works engineer, he was assigned solely to water exploration projects in fractured underground environments. During his first three years with BRGM, he became friendly with a colleague, French engineer Christophe LEGER. The two men are still friends and still work together 33 years later as Christophe is Deputy Managing Director of Vergnet Hydro.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Jean-Christophe was promoted to the position of Project Manager, tasked with improving the drinking water supply in the city of Ouagadougou, which was then facing worrying water shortages. He was subsequently appointed Director of the ANTEA office in Burkina Faso, when this BRGM subsidiary became independent in 2009.\u00a0\u201cMy first contract with BRGM was for two months. In the end, I spent 27 years working in that stimulating environment, combining research and engineering.\u201d\u00a0And on the back of those 27 years\u2019 experience, Jean-Christophe <strong>became Director of VERGNET BURKINA in 2015<\/strong>. Assisting the growth of VERGNET BURKINA was a significant professional challenge, of course. However, Jean-Christophe claims that he was above all <em><strong>\u201c\u2026 enthusiastic about VERGNET BURKINA\u2019s many R&amp;D and innovation projects\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>\u201cI\u2019ll continue to promote the development of rural hydraulics in Burkina Faso.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Among these R&amp;D and innovation projects, the keen scientist lists, <em>\u201cthe installation and monitoring of filters for arsenic decontamination on boreholes, the implementation of our drinking water management services for water supply systems, the demonstrators of VERGNET HYDRO\u2019s autonomous, solar-powered water distribution points, our first large-scale projects in the photovoltaic energy production sector and, of course, the UNICEF research action project to test an innovative management service on 150 human-driven pumps.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>In addition, VERGNET BURKINA was awarded two Water and Sanitation Trophies (\u201cResearch and Innovation\u201d and \u201cWater Resources Exploitation\u201d) at the 2018 National Water and Sanitation Forum in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI\u2019m still extremely interested in the technical developments in our sector. And I can\u2019t imagine turning the page for good. I\u2019ll therefore continue to promote the development of rural hydraulics in Burkina Faso.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Jean-Christophe has been married for 31 years and has four children and a grandson, so also intends to enjoy his retirement with his family, and to reconnect with the fundamentals of the farming community to which he belongs, the San people. As a matter of fact, he owns a 4-hectare groundnut and sesame farm and to satisfy his unstoppable quest for innovation, the young retiree even plans to develop a new organic sesame business. After ground-breaking water supply, he\u2019ll now be breaking new ground as a farmer!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a source of great satisfaction to have led one of my country\u2019s leading entities in the water and energy sector.\u201d Jean-Christophe KI will retire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,157,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso-en","category-communication-en","category-drinking-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jean-Christophe KI will retire - Vergnet Hydro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a source of great satisfaction to have led one of my country\u2019s leading entities in the water and energy sector.\u201d \u201c\u2026 enthusiastic about VERGNET BURKINA\u2019s many R&amp;D and innovation projects.\u201d\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vergnet-hydro.com\/vh\/en\/jean-christophe-ki-retiring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jean-Christophe KI will retire - 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