• Strategic planning and management of projects involving higher education, development of public institutions, and companies.
  • Institutional strengthening and capacity building for governmental reform efforts in developing countries and emerging democracies, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
  • Sustainable development for tourism, housing, new towns, nature reserves, urban revitalization project and corporate facilities.

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS:

  Special Advisor to the Governor, State of Oaxaca, Mexico, in Sustainable Development. Policy reforms, pilot projects in sustainable tourism and establishment of sustainable development fund  
 

Environmental Risk And Financial Liabilities Training Program, for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Developed, managed, and delivered a training program throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that trained 250 local consultants to advise financial intermediaries on the environmental risks and financial liabilities of small- and medium-size investments. Conducted one-week training programs in seven cities in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.

  
 

Strategic Management Study, Solo Susice, Czech Republic, for Arthur D. Little, Management Consultants. Developed a strategy for newly privatized corporation to divest and grow. Helped create strategic alliances with foreign business partners.

  
 

Strategic Plan, Jamaica, for USAID through the World Resources Institute. Developed a five-year strategy to phase out foreign assistance in the area of environment.

  
  Environmental Revolving Fund for Slovakia, sponsored by USAID. Created the institutional framework for an environmental revolving fund. The effort combined the use of consultants, workshops, meetings, and study tours to help build a new institution to finance high-priority environmental projects.  
 

ITCB Initiative for technology Cooperation in the Balkans Permanent member appointed by US Department of Commerce
  Air Quality Management District for North Bohemia, funded by USAID. Helped the North Bohemia Region of the Czech Republic to develop an institutional framework to make sustainable change. Helped local governments and NGOs establish a regional institutional mechanism for managing air quality through the introduction of market-based tools.  
  Water Management Reforms for Slovakia, funded by USAID. Analyzed the institutional structure of water management systems in the Hornad River Basin to evaluate institutional reforms carried out under the democratic reform and decentralization process. The study compared existing institutional structures; reviewed reform proposals from Ministries; summarized management models in England, France, and the United States; and generated a local model for further reform.  
  Development of an Integrated Aquacultural System for the Public Power Company of Greece. Created plan to reclaim 14,000 hectares of strip mined and fly-ash deposit areas. Proposed recycling byproducts of the power plant (hot water, fly ash, and carbon dioxide) for use in an integrated aquaculture system.
Madinat Hamad New Town, Bahrain for UNDP, in this new town for 60,000 inhabitants, recommended environmental policies that used historical water management patterns (capturing runoff in micro-catchment areas) and incorporated bioengineering principles for planting, erosion, and runoff control.  
  Planned and designed numerous projects in the Middle east including major portions of the new industrial cities of Jubail and Yanbu, 33 Border Guard Villages, several residential compounds for the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia,  
     
  Environmental Standards Assessment for the World Bank. Evaluated the effectiveness of environmental assessments and environmental institutional arrangements under Financial Intermediaries Loan (FIL) Projects. The projects represented loans of $5 billion in 19 countries between 1988, when the Bank's environmental policies were adopted, and 1992. The study focused on successful FIL project principles, practices, and models of environmental efforts throughout all lending regions.