DR. ALVIN A. COOK, JR.

Dr. Cook has over 30 years experience in domestic and international financial and economic analysis, project development and implementation, valuation of enterprises, and privatization in the transportation, energy and other utilities sectors. This experience has involved cash flow analysis, project development, financial investment analysis, development of financing, project preparation, equity, debt, and leasing arrangements, and business planning in emerging market countries for private business ventures and infrastructure projects and private business ventures as well as financial and economic analyses of domestic issues. Dr. Cook has worked with airports, marine ports, power plants, and government agencies to develop pricing sensitive business models and to determine the cash flow and the balance sheets of new projects. He has also assisted in the development of government policy in the areas of taxation, revenue enhancement, cost reduction, and macroeconomics as they pertain to corporate and project cash flow., energy and the environment Moreover, He has worked in several sectors with a particular emphasis on the transportation, energy, environment, and business development sectors. He has excellent skills with computers including system design and programming. He has designed and conducted surveys to support the analysis of markets and product pricing.

Dr. Cook has also provided feasibility analyses and studies for the major rehabilitation of infrastructure projects. He has provided training in the organization and structure of financial analysis and financial planning. For example, he organized and participated in a seminar on private sector financing for the African Development Bank focusing on the aviation sector. Dr. Cook has worked in countries throughout the world on establishing investment requirements for transportation adequate economic and financial paybacks.

Dr. Cook has also assessed the potential for new projects and defined the scopes, benefits, costs, financing possibilities, and risks of these projects. Some relevant projects include the assessments of the financial viability of road projects in Bulgaria and Macedonia, port projects in the United States, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and aviation (airline, airspace, and airport) projects in the United States, Angola, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Paraguay, Thailand, Turkey, Hungary, Sierra Leone, and Poland. He has also provided financial analyses of the modernization of satellite-based meteorological systems in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Mexico, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.

Dr. Cook has performed consulting services for many private companies and for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. In addition, he has worked with other U.S. Government Agencies, foreign governments, and State and local governments in the United States.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, (1968), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Fields: Econometrics, International Trade, Economic Development, Labor, Financial and Business Analysis.
M.A. Economics, (1966), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

A.B. (Classical) Mathematics, (1961), Seattle University, Seattle, Washington