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Curriculum Vitae
Surname:
BROWN
Name:
David Walter
Key
Work Areas
Public
and private debt markets
Environmental services
Financial
analysis and forecasting
Political economy of developing nations
Industrial
organization
Legislative procedure
Revenue
enhancement
Military and foreign policy
Land
use/spatial analysis
Personal
Details
Present
address:
16 Monticello Drive, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 97035, US
Work/home
tel:
++1 503 534 9938
Email:
davidwbrown@attglobal.net
Place
and
US Naval Base, Subic Bay, Luzon, Republic of the Philippines
Date
of birth:
13 December 1961
Nationality:
US citizen
Academic
Qualifications
09:91
- 05:95; 01:00 - present
Seattle, Washington, US
Predoctoral Associate
Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Currently
writing Ph.D. dissertation. Graduation
anticipated in June 2001.
Passed
qualifying examinations and advanced to candidacy for Ph.D.
Awarded
Master of Arts degree in Political Science.
Studied
Indonesian-Malay for four years.
Tutored
courses in comparative politics, international relations and American politics.
05:96
– 08:97
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fulbright
Scholar and Visiting Research Fellow
Institute
for Strategic & International Studies (ISIS)
Conducted
Ph.D. dissertation research on fiscal and industrial policies in the forest
products sectors of the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Built
profiles on the structure of timber concession ownership in Sabah and Sarawak
and the political implications of those structures.
Interviewed
government officials, as well as representatives of the forest products,
financial and plantation sectors.
06:95
– 03:96
Jakarta, Indonesia
Social
Science Research Council International Predissertation Fellow, Visiting Scholar
Faculty
of Economics, University of Indonesia
Conducted
predissertation research on the Indonesian forest products industry.
Interviewed
government and industry officials on fiscal and industrial policies in the
forest products sector.
Explored
political implications of the control of Indonesian timber concessions.
09:83
- 08:85&nbbsp;
Ithaca, New York, US
Cornell University
Awarded
Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy.
Studied
microeconomics, macroeconomics, monetary and trade policy, development economics
and international relations.
Awarded
full room and board scholarship by the Telluride Association.
Languages
Mother
tongue:
English
Reading
Spoken
Written
Indonesian
Proficient
Fluent
Fluent
Malay
Proficient
Proficient
Proficient
Civil
status
Married to Endang Rosdianingsih, a citizen of Indonesia
Work
Experience
LONG
TERM
07:98
– 12:99
Jakarta, Indonesia
Project:
Indonesia Tropical Forestry Management Programme, under auspices of UK
Department for International Development Southeast Asia
Employer:
LTS International Ltd, John Cantrill and Chris Inglis, Managing Directors
tel ++ 44 (0) 131 440 5500 fax ++ 44 (0) 131 440 5501
Job:
Policy Analyst
Responsibilities:
Quantified
amount of windfall profits not captured by Indonesian government in its taxation
of plywood exporters and timber concessionaires.
Analyzed
Indonesian government compliance with IMF/World Bank conditionalities.
Updated
database containing all known timber concession-plywood mill linkages, listing
which concessions and mills are owned by which groups, and ranking Indonesia’s
timber groups and provinces in order of timber concession holdings, mill
roundwood consumption, and net roundwood supply.
Quantified
domestic debt of subsidiaries and affiliates of Indonesian timber groups.
Analyzed
whether it would be more attractive for one of Indonesia’s most profitable
timber concessionaires to pursue an integrated carbon sequestration program or
continue pursuing business as usual.
Completed
spatial and quantitative analysis of Indonesian timber concessions to select the
12 most fitting as sites for carbon reservoirs and another 24 sites which
deserved further study. Presented
findings to World Bank and to Indonesian
government policy team.
11:97
– 06:98
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Securities, Hugh Peyman, former Managing
Director for Southeast Asia tel ++ 65 439 4951 fax ++ 65 235 5992 or William
Keeling, former Head of Research for Indonesia tel ++ 44 (0)171 937 4056
Job:
Forest Sector and Commodities Analyst
Responsibilities:
Wrote
financial analyses of publicly listed companies in the plywood, palm oil and
pulp and paper sectors in Indonesia.
Published
reports on plywood giant Barito Pacific Timber and on palm oil producer Astra
Agro Lestari; updated investors on
developments affecting these companies.
Advised
corporate finance department on mergers and acquisitions opportunities in the
pulp and paper and other sectors.
03:89
– 08:91
Washington, DC, US
Employer:
Office of US Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana)
Job: Defense and Foreign Affairs Legislative Assistant, Senior Campaign Researcher
Responsibilities:
Provided
advice on foreign policy and defense matters to Chair of Senate Finance
Subcommittee on International Trade and of Senate Committee on the Environment.
Designed
successful incumbent protection plan and supervised research on Senator's voting
and fund-raising record.
12:85 – 12:86, 11:87-12:88 Washington, DC, US
Employer:
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Job:
Research Associate
Responsibilities:
Co-authored
database containing summaries of Senate and House floor votes since 1981.
Monitored
Senate floor and alerted campaigns with information on votes.
01:87-10:87
Washington, DC, US
Employer: Office of US Congressman Wayne Owens (D-Utah)
Job:
Energy, Environment and Defense Legislative Assistant
Responsibilities:
Provided
advice on energy and environmental issues to come before the House Interior
Committee.
Advised
Congressman on defense, energy, tax and budget issues to come to the House of
Representatives floor.
SHORT
TERM
06:00
- 0:600&nbbsp;
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, Forensic and Asset Tracing Division
Job:
Consultant
Led
team to identify the assets of the Bob Hasan group, one of Indonesia's largest
forest conglomerates and debtors. Identified
225 companies owned partly or fully by the group, more than double the number
that had previously been identified by employer.
01:00
– 04:00
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
UK Department for International Development, Indonesia Forestry
Programme.
Job:
Consultant
Provided
inputs for program extension document on forest debt, multilateral institutional
forest reform initiatives and forest conglomerate debt.
Edited
Indonesian translation of my report, “Addicted to Rent:
Corporate and Spatial Distribution of Forest Resources in Indonesia;
Implications for Forest Sustainability and Government Policy.”
Provided
technical assistance to program partners on forest debt, multilateral
institutional forest reform initiatives and forest conglomerate debt.
12:98
– 01:99
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
The Nature Conservancy and World Wide Fund for Nature
Job:
Consultant
Carried
out study to identify 36 timber concessions (out of a national total of 464)
most appropriate for debt-for-nature-swaps and carbon reservoirs.
Digital
images of forest concessions, industrial
timber plantations, crop plantations, transmigration sites and proposed and
existing protected areas were combined into a single map.
Maps
were analyzed in order to find those timber concessions adjacent to,
overlapping, or subsumed by proposed or existing protected areas.
Timber
concessions were then checked against Department of Forestry statistics to
ensure they had high concentrations of virgin forest.
Operating
plans and maps were consulted in order to winnow out those areas already
effectively ruined by concessionaires.
08:98
– 09:98
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
The World Bank
Job:
Consultant
Led
Indonesian team of Department of Forestry officials and NGO experts to determine
whether a timber concessionaire had been illegally logging in Kerinci Sebelat
National Park, Sumatra.
Using
GPS devices, maps, long forest marches, photographic equipment, analysis of
financial documents, and personal interviews, documented and proved that the
company had been stealing timber from national park two years before and was
doing so again.
04:96
Jakarta, Indonesia
Employer:
DFID/Indonesia Tropical Forest Management Programme
Job:
Consultant
Built
database containing all known timber concession-plywood mill linkages, listing
which concessions and mills are owned by which groups and ranking Indonesia’s
timber groups and provinces in order of timber concession holdings, mill
roundwood consumption and net roundwood supply.