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The three founders of “1001 Fontaines pour demain”
François Jaquenoud
As a consultant and later Partner of Andersen Consulting (from 1975 to 1997), François Jaquenoud has carried out numerous missions in practically all areas of management and industry. As a member of the Management Committee of the French operations from 1992, he directly contributed to the management and strategic development of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in France.
From 1997 to 2003, he worked as an independent consultant in the area of Change Strategy and Management, while also being involved in the daily management of an SME in Lyon (GFA Services) in the area of automatic drink
dispensers.
François Jaquenoud has been working full-time on the “1001 Fontaines pour demain"
initiative since February 2004.
A civil mining engineer, François Jaquenoud is married and has two children.
Virginie Legrand
After working as a financial auditor with Arthur Andersen, Virginie Legrand joined the American Express Group in France, as its Marketing Manager, Sales Director, and later Director of International Development.
In parallel with her professional career, Virginie Legrand worked in Cambodia for the Enfants du Mékong association for one year. Convinced of the need to build bridges between economic players and the humanitarian world, she devoted a lot of her time to the development of partnership projects between large companies and humanitarian associations. In this capacity, she currently manages a project in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) which aims to establish a computer science university for children brought up in foster care.
A graduate of the Political Studies Institute of Paris, with an MBA from INSEAD, Virginie Legrand is married and has three children.
Lo Chay
Lo comes from a small village in the North East of Cambodia. His father has a rice field of two hectares and his mother breeds silkworms. Lo went to the primary school in his village, and then went on to further his education in difficult conditions in college and high school in Sisophon, the regional capital. Having graduated with excellent results from high school in June 1996 was cared for by the Enfants du Mékong association, which made it possible for him to pursue higher education in Phnom-Penh.
He passed an entry exam form the Institute of Technology of Cambodia in September 1997. In June 2003, he was awarded the ITC degree as a Rural Engineer and a grant which allowed him to follow two years of engineering studies at the National School for Rural Engineering at the “Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts” in Paris. As part of his studies, Lo received a lot of training on projects setting up mini-networks for drinking water in rural locations.
Lo returned to his country in November 2005 where he works on developing the “1001 Fontaines pour demain” projects for the benefit of rural populations in
Cambodia.
