Alan Bowser - Summary of Experience

ALAN S. BOWSER
409 Deerfield Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 301-608-3932 ASBLAW@AOL.COM

Summary of Experience
Alan Bowser, a graduate of Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the Georgetown University Law Center, has extensive professional experience as an attorney, economist, and executive in the public and private sectors. A former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries in the Department of Commerce, he also was a senior staff member of the World Bank Group, and a Director of the Petroleum Finance Company, Ltd. Currently, he is a member of the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board, and President of the Park Hills Civic Association.

Professional Experience
Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Alan S. Bowser, general civil practice, 1995-present. Admitted to practice in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Washington, DC.

Director, Privatization Group International, LLC
Provide consulting economic and business development services to international clients.

Consultant, World Bank Group, Office of Vice President and Corporate Secretary
Provide consultant services to the World Bank Group.

Consultant, U.S. Department of Transportation. Served as consultant to the Federal Transit Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Federal Highway Administration.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Washington, D.C. 1999 to 2001. Appointed to the Senior Executive Service of the United States, with responsibility for the U.S. Government’s Office of Automotive Affairs, Office of Energy, Infrastructure and Machinery, and Office of Metals, Materials and Chemicals. Developed President Clinton’s International Clean Energy Trade Initiative.

Board Operations Officer, The World Bank, Corporate Secretariat, Washington, D.C. 1989 to 1999. Served as acting staff secretary for the Bank Group’s Audit Committee and Budget Committee; staff secretary for the Executive Directors’ Working Group on the Inspection Panel.

Director, The Petroleum Finance Company, Ltd., Washington, D.C. 1986 to 1988
Provided political risk and market analysis for international public and private sector clients.

Legislative Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 1983 to 1985
Served as principal legislative assistant to the Hon. George W. Crockett, Jr. for the Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Economist, Executive Office of the President, U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 1976-1980. Staff economist for the Presidential Commission on World Hunger, the Treasury’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and the USDA’s Office of International Cooperation and Development

Education
A.B., Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1974, M.A., A.B.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1978, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. 1995.

Community Development. Member, Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board; Chairman, Neighborhoods Committee; Member, Transportation and Pedestrian Safety Committee, Member, Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services Advisory Committee; President and Executive Board Member, Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.; President, Park Hills Civic Association; Friends of Sligo Creek.