Curriculum Vitae

pension/social security system forecasting
urbanization and migration in developing countries
inter-regional migration in the former USSR
mortality and disability in the former USSR
population aging and fertility in developing and transition countries
US minority student performance and progression to graduate study

Economic Demography; transition economies; urban and regional economics

Duke University

Research Professor, Economics, January, 2004

Director, American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program, , September, 2003

University of Colorado at Denver

Director, American Economic Association Summer Minority Program, , September, 2000 - August, 2003

Research Professor, , January, 1999 - August, 2003

Co-Director, Program in International Business and Economic Studies (PIBES), , January, 1999 - December, 2002

Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, , 1999 - 2001

Responsibilities: actuarial forecasting and social policy design Senior Advisor to the Kazakhstan Actuarial Center, 2001 – present

International Management and Communications Corp. (IMCC)

Senior Economist and Director, , 1998 - 2001

• Team Leader, Pension Reform Technical Assistance (PRTA) program to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, for the Asian Development Bank, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 1998 – May 1999. • Senior Actuarial and Economics Expert, Kazakhstan pension reform project, USAID, May 1999 – May 2001. • Demographic data expert, Kazakhstan insurance reform project, USAID, March 2000 – January 2001. • CAER project, HIID/USAID, January – June 1999.

Economics Institute

Professor of Economics, , 1996 - 1998

Professor of Economics, September 1996 – December 1998. Associate Professor of Economics, January 1987 - August 1996. President, January 1990 - December 1996. Deputy Director/Academic Program, January 1987 - December 1989. Courses: 8774 (Ph.D. Seminar on the Post-Soviet Economy), 6010 (advanced MA level Microeconomic Theory), 6363 (International Economics), 6333 (Research Methods), 5333 (Managerial Economics), 5010 (introductory MA/ advanced intermediate Microeconomic Theory), 6823 (Professional Business Communication), 4810 (Research Methodology), 6214 (Agricultural Development Seminar), 4020 (Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory), 4010 (Intermediate Microeconomic Theory).

University of Colorado at Boulder

Professor Adjunct, Department of Economics, 1996

Associate Professor Adjunct, Department of Economics, 1987 - 1996

Courses: Economics 8774 (Ph.D. seminar on Post-Soviet Economies), 8774 (Ph.D. Seminar on Microeconomic Aspects of Economic Development), 8666 (Ph.D. Seminar on Economic Demography), 5293 (MA Seminar on Migration and Urbanization), Econ/Geog 4293 (Migration and Urbanization).

Research Associate, Institute of Behavioral Science, Program in Population Processes, 1987

The World Bank

Consultant, , 1981 - 1993

Research Project RPO 672 64, Analysis of Indian Urbanization, 1981 1984. Consultant for INDSP, evaluating public industrial enterprises in Zambia, 1984. Consultant for WUD, analyzing urban economics research with reference to Africa, 1985 6. Country assessment and analysis of structural adjustment policy in The Gambia (AF1SD) 1989 - 1991. Consultant for Agricultural and Rural Development Department, working on CGE models of Indonesia and Bangladesh, 1993.

Vanderbilt University

Assistant Professor of Economics, , September, 1981 - December, 1986

Courses: Economics 389 (Ph.D. Seminar on Microeconomic Topics in Economic Development), 388 (Ph.D. Seminar on Economic Development), 355A-B (Seminar on Research on Economic Development, for students in the Graduate Program in Economic Development), 288 (Economic Development), 279 (Theory of Urban Structure), 269A (Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources), 263 (African Economic Development), and 232 (Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory).

Princeton University

Assistant in Instruction, , 1979 - 1981

Research Assistant: with Professor Don Fullerton, on an Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department contract to extend a dynamic general equilibrium simulation model of the United States, January 1980 - July 1981; with Dr. Laurence Morse on a U.S. Labor Department contract to study youth labor market problems, summer 1978.

Thomas J. Watson Foundation

Fellow, , May, 1976 - May, 1977

Independent study of state credit policies in three countries with large public sectors, in Tanzania, Yugoslavia, and New Zealand

Visiting Positions

Scholar in Economics, Harvard University, 1984

Visiting Scholar in Economics, Fall, 1984; HIID: consultant, CAER project, 1998-99.

Papers Refereed

member, American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, Subcommittee to Study the Causes and Consequenc, 30 December 2003  

referee, Editorial board, World Development, Global Economic Review, and Africa Today, 2003  

reviewer, NSF reviews, 2001-2003  

panel member, Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, Committee on Population, National Research Council/ National Academy of, 1996-2003  

member, Actuarial Advisory Committee, National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2002-2003  

committee member, US-Russian Young Leaders Fellowship Selection Committee, 1998-2003  

referee, Agricultural Economics, African Studies Review, Comparative Economic Studies, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, and others, 1999-2002  

committee member, Ron Brown Scholarship Program selection committee, 1996-1998  

committee member, Edmund S Muskie Fellowship Program Selection Committee, 1992-1998  

Dept Services

Coordinator, MA program, Aug 2003 - present  

Other

Senior Advisor, Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and the National Bank of the Republic of, 1999-2001  

Senior Advisor, Kazakhstan Actuarial Center, 2002 - present  

Team Leader, Asian Development Bank, Pension Reform Technical Assistance project for the Kyrgyz Republic, 1998-1999