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| ERIN ENDEAN |
| Erin Endean is Vice President
of Nathan Associates’ Trade, Business,
and Economic Growth Practice. Ms. Endean
oversees a portfolio of projects in
Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa,
and Latin America encompassing trade
and investment policy and promotion;
enterprise and industry development;
macroeconomic, fiscal and financial
policy; institutional capacity building;
workforce development; and integrated
economic growth topics. From October
2001-September 2006, Ms. Endean was
Chief of Party for Nathan Associates’
Trade Capacity Building project. In
that capacity, she managed economic
and trade experts working in more than
two dozen developing countries, developed
“best practice” publications
on aspects of trade capacity building,
and kept USAID staff up-to-date on trade
and development issues through briefing
papers, seminars, and training sessions.
Over the five-year project, she trained
more than 240 USAID officers on trade
policy, institutions, and trade capacity
building best practices and resources
in seminars held in Washington, D.C.;
Quito, Ecuador; Antigua, Guatemala;
and Geneva, Switzerland.
With more than 20 years of professional
experience in both the public and
private sectors, Ms. Endean has broad
expertise in economic development,
investment, trade policy, and multilateral
and regional trading arrangements,
particularly in Asia. Before joining
Nathan Associates, she worked for
an international consulting firm founded
by former U.S. Trade Representative
(USTR) Carla A. Hills. There, she
advised U.S. firms on market access
and investment issues in foreign markets.
Her advice covered a variety of sectors—footwear,
consumer products, processed food,
beverages, automobile parts, agricultural
commodities, specialty steel, and
financial services. She also advised
on the prospects and implications
of China’s membership in the
WTO. Earlier, she worked at the Office
of the USTR as Director of Japanese
and Chinese Affairs. A frequent traveler
to China, she has worked in Asian
developing countries and speaks Mandarin
Chinese.
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| CAROLINE FAWCETT |
| Caroline Fawcett, Ph.D.
has over 20 years of experience in designing
and managing labor market and workforce
systems policies and programs worldwide.
Her work includes both domestic and
international projects, primarily in
the areas of workforce training, employment
and labor market services, and trade
integration and privatization. She has
worked in 28 countries and has extensive
experience in Latin America. Most recently
she has been directing Rapid Workforce
Assessments in the ANE Region for USAID,
with specific studies of the Philippines,
India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Many of these projects involved the
design of pilot projects and needs assessments,
management of large and complex workforce
training programs in various sectors,
including youth and gender employment
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HEYWOOD FLEISIG |
| Heywood Fleisig is Director
of Research at the Center for the Economic
Analysis of Law (CEAL) in Bethesda,
Maryland. During his tenure, CEAL has
prepared studies, draft laws, and reform
programs for more than twenty-five countries
in areas including frameworks for secured
lending, and for company, civil, and
land registration.
Before joining CEAL, Mr. Fleisig
served at the World Bank in the research
department and in the offices of the
chief economists for Asia and Latin
America. Before retiring, he was Economic
Advisor for the Private Sector Development
department where he was responsible
for project evaluation for all Bank
private sector development projects.
Before joining the Bank, Mr. Fleisig
served on the economic staffs of the
Congressional Budget Office and the
Federal Reserve Board. Prior to that,
he taught at Cornell.
Mr. Fleisig received his Ph.D. in
economics from Yale. In recent years
he has written mainly on the economic
analysis and economic impact of the
reform of legal systems, focusing
on secured transactions, mortgages,
and systems of civil and land registration
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MARK GALLAGHER |
Mark Gallagher is an
economist at Development Alternatives
Inc. (DAI) since 2003 and serves as
Chief of Party of USAID’s worldwide
Fiscal Reform and Economic Governance
Project. Mark is a seasoned economist
with wide experience working with
donor agencies and counterpart governments.
He has designed, implemented, and
evaluated economic policy reform projects,
especially fiscal reform projects,
since 1984. Mark has been an advisor,
team leader, or Chief of Party in
Africa, Latin America, Central Asia,
and Central Europe. He has also served
as a USAID foreign service officer
and later as PSC, working in Liberia,
Washington, and El Salvador. Mark
holds a Ph.D. in economics and is
the author of two books and contributor
to other books, several refereed academic
journal articles, and numerous reports,
manuals, and computer models. He has
both taught at the university level
and led seminars in many areas of
economics and public finance. |
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GENE V. GEORGE
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| Gene V. George has had
a 30 year career with USAID beginning
as an International Development Intern
(IDI) engineer. He has served in a number
of positions as an engineer, energy,
environment and project development
officer. During his tenure with USAID
he has had assignments in USAID/W in
the ANE and E&E bureaus, and in
Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Russia.
His most recent field work was as Mission
Director for USAID/Bangladesh. He is
currently the Deputy Assistant Administrator
for the Office of Human Resources. In
addition to his USAID experience, he
began his international development
career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Nepal. |
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| VICTORIA GUNNARSSON |
Victoria Gunnarsson
has been a Research Officer in the
Expenditure Policy Division of the
Fiscal Affairs Department since 2005.
Her work mainly focuses on measuring
the efficiency and flexibility of
health and education expenditure in
various country contexts. Previously
at the World Bank Institute, she worked
on designing and interpreting impact
evaluations of the effectiveness of
capacity enhancement programs. Her
research has focused on the impact
of child labor on educational attainment
of young children in developing countries
and the effect of school autonomy
on schooling outcomes. Ms. Gunnarsson
holds a Masters of Science in Economics.
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| STEPHEN HADLEY |
Stephen Hadley has
been the Director of USAID’s
Office of Economic Growth in the Bureau
for Economic Growth, Agriculture and
Trade since 2000. He has had long-term
assignments in Malaysia, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, Moldova and Ukraine. He
graduated with a B.A. in Economics
and a BSc. in Geophysics from Yale
University and received a Masters
Degree in International Relations
from Johns Hopkins’ School of
Advanced International Studies. |
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| ARNOLD C. HARBERGE |
| Arnold C. Harberger is
Distinguished Professor of Economics
at the University of California Los
Angeles (UCLA) and Chief Economic Advisor
to the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID). Professor Harberger
is a leading international expert and
practitioner on economic development
and consults widely with international
organizations and with developing countries
in Central America, Latin America, the
Middle East and Asia. His advice on
such matters as inflation control and
real exchange rate management has been
critical in the successful solution
of macroeconomic problems in a wide
range of developing countries.
In the course of his long and distinguished
career, Professor Harberger has made
path-breaking contributions to the
field of economics on the now widely
accepted theory and methodology for
measuring the gains or losses of a
proposed policy change. Nearly every
working economist utilizes “Harberger
triangles” either formally or
tacitly to measure the effects of
economic change.
Professor Harberger received his
Ph.D. degree at the University of
Chicago. Afterwards, he spent 38 years
with the faculty of economics there.
He has been Professor of Economics
at UCLA since 1984. Other academic
positions included visiting professorships
at Harvard, Princeton, and the University
of Paris, as well as the MIT Center
for International Studies in New Delhi
and the Institute for the Economy
in Transition in Moscow.
Professor Harberger has served as
a consultant to sixteen foreign governments,
nine U.S. government agencies (including
USAID), eight international agencies
and foundations (including the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the
Asian Development Bank, and the Organization
of American States). Numbered among
his students at the University of
Chicago and UCLA are more than a dozen
central bank presidents and two dozen
foreign government ministers. Professor
Harberger is past president of the
American Economic Association, and
a member of the National Academy of
Sciences. |
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| HENRIETTA HOLSMAN
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| Henrietta Holsman Fore
is Acting Administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development
(USAID) and Acting Director of U.S.
Foreign Assistance. |
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