Career Talk with Glen Wright

Work in Developing Countries on Public Finance and Governance

Glen Wright ’72 MPA has worked for the past twenty-five years as public finance, fiscal decentralization and local governance adviser in over twenty-five countries in the Central Europe and CIS region, Asia, and Africa. He has served as fiscal decentralization adviser on numerous projects implemented by UNDP, UNCDF, USAID, and WB. He has prepared governance and decentralization strategies on fiscal decentralization and local governance for implementation by central and local governments in the transition and post-conflict countries as diverse as Ukraine, Nepal, Albania and Somalia. He has authored or co-edited public finance and public management textbooks for use in the transition countries than have been translated into six languages. He has provided training and technical assistance to numerous governmental ministries and local governments involved in implementing public finance management reforms and decentralized service delivery systems.

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