Specialization
Budget systems and budget
process (PEM) including medium-term financial framework, program and
performance budgeting, management information systems such a flash
reporting for central, regional and local government finances;
reorganization of MoF; intergovernmental fiscal relations,
comprehensive experience on fiscal issues in economies in transition
such as Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine.
Familiar with: Best Practice (OECD); the Manual on Fiscal Transparency
of the IMF, the GFS-Manual of the IMF (the concept and its
application); OECD Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement
Systems, Application of PEFA PFM Performance Measurement Framework.
Because of my proficiency in Russian I am very familiar with the
Russian terminology in budgeting which prevents any misunderstandings
in communication.
Languages
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Speaking
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Writing
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German
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Native tongue
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English
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Russian
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French
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Serbo-Croatian
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Education
- 1965 Ph.D. in economics; 1959 M.A. in economics, University of Cologne.
- 1962 March-August: Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris.
- 1962-63 Economics Department University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Teaching assistant, Fulbright-exchange student
Field Experience
Bolivia, Guatemala, Ghana,
Yugoslavia, Tonga, Namibia, Romania, Lithuania, Cambodia, Uzbekistan,
Russia, Ukraine
Work Experience
06/2005–12/2008:
Advisor to Ministry of Finance Ukraine (German Corporation for
Technical Assistance - GTZ), reorganizing fiscal administration,
improving Performance-Based Budgeting and medium-term expenditure
framework; preparing guidelines for the formulation of programs and the
selection of performance indicators.
11/2004-05/2005:
Fiscal consultant in the DFID-Project Public Administration and Civil
Service Reform Russian Federation introducing performance budgeting on
the Federal level in Moscow: Assisting the Ministry of Economy and the
Ministry of Agriculture to implement the first phase of performance
budgeting, evaluating methodological guidelines, preparing an expertise
for the Government Commission of the Reform of the Budget under the
chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister Zhukov on the cooperation of
the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy in the area of the
formulation of the budget.
05/2000-04/2004:
Advisor to Ministry of Finance Russian Federation assigned by GTZ, Team
Leader, assistance in reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations
(fiscal equalization, assignment of taxes, regional allocation of the
corporation income tax, local government finance, amendments to the
Budget Code), organizing study tours; participated in the sessions of
the working group on the reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations
in the Ministry of Finance Russian Federation.
10/1998-03/2000:
Team Leader Expenditure Management Component (GTZ) in World Bank
Project (CSIP) in the Oblasts Novosibirsk and Rostov (Russia):
Introduction of modern fiscal management including medium-term
financial planning, treasury system, management information system
(“Flash reporting”), treatment of capital
expenditure based on a newly introduced computerized system, reform of
municipal finances.
10/1996-09/1998:
Economic Policy Advisor Cabinet of Ministers Uzbekistan; member of the
President’s Committee on economic reforms; various
investigations and recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers on
public finance; simultaneously Res. Representative for GTZ.
01/1996-09/1996:
Ministry of Finance of the State of Berlin (Germany), reforming the
budgetary process towards a kind of PBB, cash and debt management
10/1974-12/1995:
School for Government Berlin, Germany, professor for public finance,
training of future government officials in budget system and budgetary
process including PEM, cash management etc. Between semesters work in
the Budget Departments of the State of Berlin and the City Districts.
06/1972-07/1974:
Headquarters of DEUTSCHE BANK AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, senior
economist, assistant to the Director of the Economics Department
(economic, fiscal and monetary Policy)
01/1966-05/1972:
IMF, Washington, D.C., Fiscal Affairs Department (public expenditure
management, tax reform); Participated in consultation missions and
stand-by arrangements; Bolivia assigned to IBRD-missions, personal
advisors to on budget matters to Minister of Finance; Ghana 4 months
fiscal advisor (budget in general, adjusting the budget to a planned
currency devaluation program; Eastern European Division (desk for
Yugoslavia).
04/1964-12/1965:
MOBIL OIL AG Hamburg, Ass. Division Chief, Treasurers Dept.
09/1962-10/1963:
Economics Dept., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), teaching
assistant.
09/1959-03/1962:
Research Institute for Public Finance, U. of Cologne, Germany
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