• Decision counsel to international business, government, and the volunteer sector on issues of technology, economy and society in circumstances of socioeconomic stress, rapid technological or environmental change.
  
• Technology forecasting and management, work and economic organization, education and learning, communications, access, transport, energy, environment and location planning.
  
• Organization of team projects to probe for new entrepreneurial opportunities, identify inhibiting barriers, pitfalls, etc.
• Organization of teams to prepare and present independent "second opinions" on large projects/programs.
  
• Design and leadership of international technology and management surveys.
  
• Plans for strategic adaptation of technologies, products, services, business procedures, and institutional structures to changing technological, resource and environmental requirements.
  
• Counsel, quality control (mechanisms) and organization and support of international team projects.
  
• Creation of international networks linking practitioners, thinkers, researchers and decision-makers.
  
• Advisory counsel on regional, new town and redevelopment projects.
  
• Identification, selection, preparation and implementation of non-standard or innovative projects.
  
• Fund raising for public interest causes.
  

Academic Background

• Visiting lecturer in graduate & undergraduate programs of numerous US and European universities
  
• Advanced Research in Planning: University of Rome & Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1969-71
  
• Certificate, Urban and Regional Planning: 1968, Salzburg Seminar
  
• Instructor: Economics Dept., New York University, 1964-65; History Dept., Mills College, 1963-64
  
• Ph.D. Can., Economics (Orals) - Columbia University, 1963-66
  
• Certificate, International Affairs - 1965: International Fellows Program, Columbia University
  
• A.B., Economics, Columbia College
  
• Undergraduate studies in physical sciences: Amherst College, Mass.
  

Honors and Awards

• Stockholm Prize for the Environment, June 2000
• Ford Foundation Fellow (International Technology Planning)
  
• Brasilia Medal (For Outstanding Contribution in National Planning, awarded by President of Brazil)
  
• Fulbright Fellow (Industrial and Economic Planning in Underdeveloped Areas)
  
• MIT Fellowship (Planning in Developing Areas (declined))
  
• Italian Government Doctoral Research Grant (Development Planning in Mezzogiorno)
  
• Fellow - Center for Studies on Industrial Development (Rome)
  
• International Fellow (Columbia University Graduate Award)
  
• Dante Scholar in Italian Studies (Columbia University)
  
• Columbia University Scholar
  
• Amherst College Scholar
  

Memberships/Associations

• Society for International Development
  
• Salzburg Assembly on the Impact of New Technology
  
• TRB Committee on Urban Transport Innovations
  
• American Economic Association;
  
• SCUPAD (Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Regional Development)
  

Languages

English. Passable: French. Italian. Fair: Spanish. German. Portuguese.

Publications

Author, co-author or contributor to more than two hundred reports, books and articles. Served on editorial/advisory boards of "World Transport Policy Journal", "Traffic Engineering & Control", and "Mass Transit" journals. Founded Rethinking Work and Access Planners Bookshelf electronic libraries and forums on ECTF/CompuServe. Created WWW sites on numerous technology and society issues (see http://www.the-commons.org ). Latest books: Rethinking Work: New Concepts of Work in a Knowledge Society (Nov. 1996, CEC Brussels) and The Information Society and Sustainable Development (MCB University Press, Bradford, UK, March, 1996)

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