Seconded from ADB to organize capacity building and training for ADB's developing member countries. Responsibilities include consulting with ADB and governments to set the annual program; and designing, supervising preparations, and leading each training event.

Head of ADB’s local office in Yerevan, Armenia. Responsibilities included managing a portfolio comprising $800 million of on-going infrastructure projects (transport, energy, and urban development) and policy reform programs (infrastructure sustainability, support for women’s businesses); leading annual project and program development; leading ADB’s relationships with the government, development partners, and civil society; and managing ADB’s local office, including a staff of 12 Armenians and an annual budget of approximately $1 million.

Led cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams conducting comprehensive evaluations of ADB’s projects and programs. Responsibilities included designing the evaluation; recruiting consultants; consulting stakeholders in ADB and in country to determine priority issues and gauge ADB's performance; leading project- and sector-level evaluations as inputs to the overall country evaluation; drafting the final report; and presenting the final report to ADB's Board of Directors.

Responsibilities as Head of the Economics Unit included managing a group of six economists conducting policy research for the Chinese government; leading small teams of staff producing quarterly macroeconomic reports and policy notes for the Chinese government; supervising drafting of the China chapter of ADB's biannual economic report on the Chinese economy (the Asian Development Outlook); leading the biannual press conferences launching the China chapter of the Asian Development Outlook; reviewing the status of economic analysis in China for a report on integrating ADB's procedures with those of the Chinese government; and supervising staff involved in the design and implementation of ADB-funded research on China.

Conducted applied research for the economic analysis of ADB-financed projects, especially projects in urban and rural environmental management. Responsibilities included economic analysis of ADB-financed projects as a member of several project teams; research and writing reports aimed at strengthening ADB's economic analysis of projects; and reviewing the economic analysis of ADB-financed projects to ensure consistency with ADB's Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects.

Conducted applied economic research for EPA programs, especially in water resource management. Responsibilities included determining research priorities in consultation with other EPA staff; initiating and conducting independent research; working with other EPA staff and non-EPA researchers on applied research projects; supervising EPA-funded external research projects; writing research reports; and presenting reports in workshops and conferences.

Conducted and managed research on resource and environmental issues, especially water resources, and for expert testimony supporting litigation. Responsibilities included consulting with clients on the design of research projects; planning and managing research; conducting independent research; drafting research reports; and presenting reports to clients and in workshops and conferences.

Research and teaching in natural resource economics and applied statistics.