THE BUILDING OF GOVERNMENT REGULATORY SYSTEMS

Paul Ballonoff, Consultant

Thursday, February 16, 2006, 3 p.m.

2033 K Street NW, Suite 230

Paul Ballonoff is a consultant for the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development.  He just returned from over a year in Georgia.  He spent a few years in Ukraine.  He has also worked in India, the Philippines, and other countries.  He has a PhD in cultural anthropology, a law degree, and he has worked as an economist.  Mostly, he designs government regulatory systems for public utilities, such as electricity and gas. He has met many of the previous JFDP scholars at GWU.  In the 1990s Ballonoff and Umpleby co-chaired a series of symposia in Vienna, Austria, on country development strategies.  See http://www.gwu.edu/~rpsol/preconf.html