Glenn P. Jenkinsis Professor of Economics at Queens University, Canada, and Director of its Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis. He is also an Institute Fellow Emeritus, of Harvard University, and is President of Cambridge Resources International. In 1985, he founded the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Harvard University, and was its Director from 1985 to 2000. Dr. Jenkins specializes in the fields of public finance, investment appraisal, and economic development. He has worked extensively on the appraisal and planning of major infrastructure investments around the world. He has published sixteen books, and over hundred articles in these subject fields. Read more [ Email ]

Dr. Arnold C. Harberger is a Professor of Economics, University of California Los Angeles (since 1984) and Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago (Emeritus since Oct. 1991; Dist. Serv. Prof. since 1977; on faculty since 1953; Economics Chairman, 1964-70, 1975-80). He has acted as an economic consultant to a variety of international agencies including International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Organization of American States. He has also been an advisor to numerous government ministries or agencies including, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile. China, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela. Plus U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Interior; Council of Economic Advisers, Agency for International Development, The White House. This has included special assignments as Special Ambassador, U.S. Department of State, 1984, Commissioner, International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, 1987-89, and Presidential Mission to Poland, 1989. Professor Harberger has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including, Member: National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow: Econometric Society, President: Western Economic Association (1989-90), Vice President: American Economic Association (elected for 1992), Honorary Degrees: Catholic University of Chile (1988), National University of Tucuman [Argentina] (1979), Central American Technological University (1989), President: American Economic Association, 1997, Distinguished Fellow: American Economic Association, 1999, and Lecturer: Simon Kuznets Memorial Lectures (Yale), 2000. In addition to being a leader in the development of the theory and application of cost-benefit analysis, Dr. Harberger has published numerous articles and studies in the fields of public finance, materials policy, economic theory, international trade, economic development, and econometrics. His educational background includes a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and M.A. in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the University of Chicago. Read more [ Email ]

Chun-Yan Kuo Dr. George Kuo is a Senior Fellow of John Deutsch Institute International, Queen's University. Prior to joining Queen's University he was a research fellow at Harvard International Tax Program and Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University. In 2004 he was a visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Finance, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. He has worked as a consultant on tax reform and tax analysis in Belize, Dominican Republic, Nepal, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Guyana, Taiwan, Tanzania, Ukraine and Vietnam.
In addition, he advised the Government of People's Republic of China how to improve surveys of enterprises, measure tax capacity and develop models for tax policy simulations. He has worked for over 20 years with issues concerned with project appraisal and has published numerous articles in leading economic journals on topics related with the project appraisal and tax issues. He has completed such major international financial and economic appraisals as Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge, the Andean Highway Passes Expansion Program, and the Canadian Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide. Read more [ Email ]

Hanna Zowall is a health economist. She has been conducting economic evaluation analyses of new health care interventions since 1989 in Canada, the USA and the UK. Her co-authored works have been published in major international medical journals.
For over 10 years, she was Director of Economic Evaluations in the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care, Division of Clinical Epidemiology at The Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal. She served as a member of University-Industry Committee at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and has been a recipient of Prix IMS Health Canada for the best cost-effectiveness study. She teaches at the Faculty of Management, McGill University, and at the Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is a founder of Zowall Consulting (http://www.health-economics.ca). Recently she has been economic consultant to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. [ Email ]

Aygul Ozbafli is an Economist with the John Deutsch International Executive Programs at Queen’s University. Her area of specialization is Investment Appraisal, and in particular the use of stated choice techniques to evaluate willingness to pay for reliability of electricity supply. She has served as a Lecturer with the Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis at John Deutsch International Executive Programs since 2005. Ms. Ozbafli graduated with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado and also obtained an MBA from University of Colorado’s School of Business. She obtained an MA in economics from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. At the present time she is completing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Birmingham, UK. [ Email ]

Andrey Klevchuk is an Economist with the John Deutsch International Executive Programs at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. For the past two years, he has also served as the Head of the Investment Appraisal and Modeling Team, Private Sector Department, African Development Bank, as a consultant through the John Deutsch International Executive Programs at Queen’s University, Canada. Mr. Klevchuk has served as a consultant in a number of investment appraisal projects, including assignments for the African Development Bank and Government of Limpopo Province, South Africa. He has also been a consultant on public finance, tax reform and revenue forecasting for the Governments of Dominican Republic, North Cyprus, Vietnam, and the World Bank. He was a member of the faculty of the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, and the Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis, John Deutsch International, Queens University since 2000. He has served as a Lecturer with the Program on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis at the African Development Bank and Caribbean Development Bank. Also, Mr. Klevchuk has been involved in organization and delivery of executive programs in USA, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, Barbados, India, Cyprus, Thailand, Tunisia, and Egypt. [ Email ]