EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Economics, University of Texas at Austin,1979
Postdoctoral
studies, Oxford University, 1981-82
Postdoctoral
studies, London School of Eco¬nomics, 1981-82
Postdoctoral
studies, George Washington Uni¬v., 1983-84
Graduate
studies, University of Massa¬chu¬setts, 1968-69
B.S., John
Carroll University, Eco¬nomics, 1968
OTHER TRAINING
Visiting
Professor, London School of Economics and Pol. Sci., 1981-82.
Research
Fellow, Oxford Univ., Inst. of Econ. and Statistics, 1981-82.
Research
Fellow, Oxford Univ., Queen Elizabeth House, 1981-82.
Review¬er
for Oxford Uni¬v. Press, JDE, Journal of
Policy Modeling, World Development, Applied Economics.
University
Selection Com¬mittee, Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
Program.
LANGUAGE & DEGREE OF
PROFICIENCY
English
(mother tongue - proficient)
Spanish (mother tongue – proficient)
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES
Royal Economic Society • American
Eco¬n.
Associa¬tion • Econometric Society • Cosmos
Club
COUNTRIES OF WORK
EXPERIENCE
East Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam. Middle East: Egypt, Jordan.
Micronesia: Fed. States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
Palau, Tuvalu. Eastern Europe: Romania. Central Asia: Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. Central America and Caribbean: Belize, Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; Dominican
Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. South America: Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay,
Venezuela.
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
FROM 1992 to Present
Self-Employed, Montague Lord International
LLC
International consultant, with particular
emphasis on Southeast Asia, Latin America, Middle East and FSU
countries in the fields of trade policy reform, macroeconomics,
econometric modeling, export development strategies, investment
promotion and project identification. Also visiting professor of
economics at West Virginia University. Director of numerous projects
for universities, government agencies, national and international
organizations including the World Bank, IMF, OECD, ADB, IDB, WTO and
JICA.
From 1972 TO 1992
Inter-American Development Bank
(Washington,
DC)
International Trade and Development
Economist and Acting Chief of International Trade Section. Managed team
of international economists supporting IDB lending operations, and
coordinated activities in trade, finance and macroeconomics. Developed
prototype macroeconomic model for application and extension by country
economists and estimated alternative macroeconomic policies. Designed
international trade policy models to quantitatively assess impact of
multilateral trade liberalization, free trade areas and WTO
negotiations. Prepared studies on market structure and industry
studies..
CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS
2006
Project & Location: EC, Tax Revenue Forecasting, Viet Nam
Year & Duration: 2006 (0.5 months)
Position: Financial Specialist
Services Rendered: Determined options for revenue forecasting methods of Government tax department.
Project & Location: EC/World Bank, Tax and Tax Administration Burden on SMEs, Laos,
Year & Duration: 2006 (1 months)
Position: Financial Specialist
Services Rendered: Assessment of the tax system in Laos and impact on business environment.
Project & Location: ADB, Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP) Evaluation, Azerbaijan
Year & Duration: 2006 (3 month)
Position: Poverty Specialist
Services Rendered: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Country Poverty Analyses (CPA).
Project & Location: EC, Multrap Evaluation, Cambodia and Lao PDR
Year & Duration: 2006 (2 month)
Position: Trade and Investment Specialist
Services Rendered: Assess of Multilateral Trade Assistance Project (MULTRAP) in Cambodia and Laos.
Project
& Location: ADB,
BIMSTEC Transport Logistics Study, Maldives
Year & Duration: 2006 (2 month)
Position: Trade Logistics Specialist
Services Rendered: Study to promote trade
among the Member States of
the Bay of Bengal Initiatives for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (BIMSTEC).
2005
Project
& Location: ADB,
Commercialization of Agriculture in the Maldives, Maldives
Year & Duration: 2005 (3 month)
Position: Team Leader, Private Sector
Development Specialist
Services Rendered: Study on assessment and
prioritization of commercial
opportunities for agriculture and identify key elements of a strategy
for agricultural commercialization that includes pilot projects.
Project
& Location: ADB, Small
Scale Technical Assistance for Capacity Building of Ministry of Finance
To Support Tariff, Industry and Subsidy Analysis for the Purpose of WTO
Accession, Viet Nam
Year & Duration: 2005(2 months)
Position:
Services Rendered: Trade capacity building
for Vietnam’s
market access negotiations of WTO accession, providing tools for
analyzing effective rates of assistance.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Impact Assessment of Economic Policy Reforms, Egypt
Year & Duration: 2005 (2 months)
Position: Team Leader, Macroeconomist and
International Financial
Economist
Services Rendered: Impact assessment of
trade policy and customs
reforms from donor-assisted policy based cash transfer programs and
technical assistance projects.
Project
& Location: DFID,
Partial Scope Agreement between Belize and Guatemala, Belize
Year & Duration: 2005 (1 month)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Assessed Partial Scope
Agreement (PSA) with
Guatemala on investment, transportation, and implications for trade
taxes and industry-specific production and employment levels.
2004
Project
& Location: ADB,
Bhutan Country Assistance Program Evaluation (CAPE)
Year & Duration: 2004 (5 months)
Position: Team Leader, Evaluation Specialist
Services Rendered: Country assistance
program evaluation (CAPE) of
loans and technical assistance in the last 20 years to meet national
and ADB sector and country strategy objectives.
Project
& Location: ADB, Small
Scale Technical Assistance for Capacity Building of Ministry of Finance
To Support Tariff, Industry and Subsidy Analysis for the Purpose of WTO
Accession, Viet Nam
Year & Duration: 2004 (5 months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Trade capacity building
for Vietnam’s
market access negotiations of WTO accession, providing tools for
industry-level and tax revenue implications of potential offers.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Uzbekistan Economic Growth and Macro-Modeling Study, Uzbekistan
Year & Duration: 2004 (4 months)
Position: Trade and Private Sector
Development Specialist
Services Rendered: Macroeconomic analysis of
growth sources from
product and expenditure sides, and development of macro-modeling
capabilities based on RMSM-X methodology.
Project
& Location: DfiD,
Evaluation of DFID Support to Trade Capacity Building
Year & Duration: 2004 (3 months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and investment
specialist
Services Rendered: Conducted national
assessment of trade-related
capacity building and evaluated donor assistance on trade to derive
lessons for DFID activities.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Impact Assessment of Colombia-United States Bilateral Trade Agreement
Year & Duration: 2004 (2 months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Developed quantitative
models to assess impact of
FTAA and bilateral trade liberalization on trade, and effective rates
of protection changes on production levels.
Project
& Location: ADB, ADTA
Project Preparation for Commercialization of
Agriculture in the
Maldives
Year & Duration: 2004 (1 month)
Position: Trade and Private Sector
Development Specialist
Services Rendered: Prepared technical
assistance project for
commercialization of agriculture to support private sector activity in
high-value products targeted at niche markets.
2003
Project
& Location: ADB,
Prioritizing Strategic Directions for BIMP-EAGA, Brunei, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines
Year & Duration: 2003 (4 months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Revised growth area
strategy on trade,
agro-business, transport and trade for Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia,
Malaysia and Philippines.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Regional Cooperation Initiative, Maldives
Year & Duration: 2003 (4 month)
Position: Trade and Investment Specialist
Services Rendered: Regional cooperation
strategy with South Asian
countries in private sector development, agriculture, aquaculture,
transport and communications, and fisheries.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Evaluation of Competitiveness Initiatives, Global
Year & Duration: 2003 (4 months)
Position: Trade and Private Sector
Development Specialist
Services Rendered: Evaluated competitiveness
initiatives throughout the
world by public and private organization, and conducted
country-specific evaluations on overseas missions.
Project
& Location: ADB, Greater
Mekong Subregion (GMS) Trade and Investment Information System.
Year & Duration: 2003 (3 months)
Position: Trade and Private Sector
Development Specialist
Services Rendered: Development of trade and
investment information
system for the Greater Mekong Sub-Region for cross-border transactions,
published on the ADB’s Internet site.
Project
& Location: World Bank,
Study of Selected Asian Countries in Developing Trade and Investment
Relations with Africa: Incentives and Linkages, Asia and Africa
Year & Duration: 2003 (2 months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Analyzed Asian trade and
investment flows to Africa
and the effects of donor aid policies and related institutional
arrangements on trade and investment initiatives.
2002
Project
& Location: EC,
Implementation of EU-Jordan Association Agreement, Jordan
Year & Duration: 2002 (6
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Responsible for overall
strategy, annual work plan
and bridging activities for Government of Jordan through support of
European Commission.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Accession to WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), Jordan
Year & Duration: 2002 (5
person-months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Advised on accession to
WTO GPA, developed time-line
for negotiations and identified technical assistance needs, and
evaluation of the WTO GPA, drafting of the entity offer for
negotiations and preparation of a policy paper for high-level officials.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Assessment of Competitiveness Initiatives, Global
Year & Duration: 2002 (5
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Evaluated competitiveness
initiatives throughout the
world by public and private organizations and conducted
country-specific evaluations on overseas missions.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Exploring the Maldives’ Subregional Economic Cooperation
Potential, Maldives
Year & Duration: 2002 (4
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Designed action plan for
sub-regional cooperation
based on the Asian growth area model in trade and tourism, and held
workshop on findings in action areas.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Development of Trade and Investment Information System for the Greater
Mekong Sub-region (GMS), GMS
Year & Duration: 2002 (3
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Developed trade and
investment information system
for GMS for cross-border transactions. The information system was
published on the ADB’s internet site.
Project
& Location: EC, Study
Supporting to Implementation of EU-Jordan Association Agreement, Jordan
Year & Duration: 2002 (3
person-months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Responsible for overall
strategy, annual work plan
and bridging activities, and project reports.
Project
& Location: DfID, Trade
Policy Impact Training Course, Thailand
Year & Duration: 2002 (1
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Delivered a training
course for trade policy impact
on poverty alleviation, with special case studies on Southeast Asian
economies.
2001
Project
& Location: ADB,
Macroeconomic and Poverty Impact Model of Cambodia, Cambodia
Year & Duration: 2001(4
person-months)
Position: Macroeconomist and International
Financial Economist
Services Rendered: Developed macroeconomic
model technique for
forecasting and measuring policy impact.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Macroeconomic Model, Bangladesh
Year & Duration: 2001 (4
person-months)
Position: Macroeconomist and International
Financial Economist
Services Rendered: Developed macroeconomic
modeling technique for
measuring impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty incidence.
Project
& Location: USAID, WTO
Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), Jordan
Year & Duration: 2001 (3
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Evaluated impact of
joining WTO Government
Procurement Agreement (GPA) for key industries based on costs of
production and effective rates of protection.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Assessment of Impact of Jordan-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Jordan
Year & Duration: 2001 (4
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Assessed the impact of
the Jordan-US FTA on
bilateral trade in goods and services and identified competitive
Jordanian industries.
Project
& Location: World Bank,
Trade Policy Reform of Viet Nam, Viet Nam
Year & Duration: 2001 (3
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Analyzed likely impact of
liberalization of trade
regulations, trade policy reforms, and WTO adjustments required.
2000
Project
& Location: USAID,
Assessment of Tariff Reforms and Impact on the Macroeconomy of Egypt,
Egypt
Year & Duration: 2000 (6
person-months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Led the assessment of
proposed tariff reforms and
their impact on the macro-economy as well as specific products and
sectors of the country.
Project
& Location: ADB,
East-West Economic Corridor
Project, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, and
Central Viet Nam
Year & Duration: 2000 (4
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Analyzed trade and
investment policies and projects
for the East-West Economic Corridor countries in the Greater Mekong
Subregion.
Project
& Location: ADB,
Macroeconomic Model of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Year & Duration: 2000 (4
person-months)
Position: Macroeconomist and International
Financial Economist
Services Rendered: Led macroeconomic
modeling project under fixed and
flexible exchange rate systems.
Project
& Location: USAID, Trade
and Investment Policy Study, Honduras
Year & Duration: 2000 (3
person-months)
Position: Team Leader, Trade and Investment
Specialist
Services Rendered: Evaluated and designed
sector policy reform program
and technical support project in support of structural adjustment
program.
1999
Project
& Location: ADB,
Global Trade Linkages Analysis for ASEAN Members, Southeast Asia Region
Year & Duration: 1999 (4
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Analyzed major
determinants of global trade linkages
for ASEAN members and factors affecting foreign direct investments
(FDI) and portfolio capital flows in each country.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Balance of Payments Macroeconomic Model, Egypt
Year & Duration: 1999 (3
person-months)
Position: Macroeconomist and International
Financial Economist
Services Rendered: Designed and estimated
balance of payments model
macroeconomic project to calculate fundamental equilibrium exchange
rate.
Project
& Location: USAID,
Furniture Industry Study, Egypt
Year & Duration: 1999 (3
person-months)
Position: Private sector development
specialist
Services Rendered: Studied international
competitiveness of furniture
industry based on calculations of effective rates of protection and
trade indicators.
Project
& Location: JICA,
Investment Guide, Kazakhstan
Year & Duration: 1999 (1
person-months)
Position: Trade and investment specialist
Services Rendered: Prepared an investment
guide to promote investment
in the machinery industry, including compartive cost analysis of
competing countries in the region.
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