Member. Fulbright National Public Policy Screening Committee, January 17,  2013.

Appointed for a second time to serve as  member of the 2013-2014 National Screening Committee  to select  U.S. graduate students who will function in a “special assistant” role for senior level government officials from the following eleven developing countries: Bangladesh, Burma, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Nepal, and Samoa. The Fulbright National Screening Committee is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Institute of International Education.

Invited expert. Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Washington D.C., December 18, 2012.

Gave a two-hour presentation to State Department officials on Haiti's macroeconomic and fiscal situation in the post-earthquake period as part of the Haiti Advanced Area Studies Program. 

Technical Advisor, Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund Washington, D.C., December 3-14, 2012.

Provided technical assistance  in the form of lectures and workshops for the residential segment of the French Distance Learning Financial Programming and Policies course for senior level government officials from Sub-Sahara Africa and Haiti. Responsible for developing and teaching workshops on analysis and projections of national accounts, balance of payments, fiscal accounts, and monetary accounts.

Technical Advisor, Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., October 17-November 21, 2012.

Provided technical assistance in the form of lectures and workshops for the French Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy Seminar for senior level government officials from Sub-Sahara Africa and Haiti. Responsible for developing and teaching workshops on fiscal projections, fiscal stance, and the economic cycle, tax reform, public debt management, balance sheet approach to fiscal analysis, relations between fiscal and other accounts, and debt sustainability analysis.

Technical Advisor, Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., August 15, October 16, 2012.

Provided technical assistance for the French Distance Learning Financial Programming and Policies course for senior level central bankers and ministry of finance officials from Sub-Sahara Africa and Haiti. Responsible for workshops on analysis and projections of national accounts, balance of payments, fiscal accounts, and monetary accounts.

Technical Advisor, IMF mission to Rwanda, September 24 –October 5, 2012.

Delivered, as part of a three-member team headed by the Division Chief for the African Division of the IMF Institute for Capacity Development, a two-week financial programming and policies course in Kigali, Rwanda for  senior level central bankers and government officials from Eastern and Southern Africa. Responsible for developing and teaching lectures and workshops on financial programming, analysis and forecasting of output, expenditure, and prices, the sources of economic growth, analysis and forecasting of balance of payments, and monetary accounts.

Invited expert. Meridian International Center, Washington D.C., June 21, 2012.

Executive Analytic Exchange on Haiti  sponsored by the National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence  and Research, U.S. Department of State. Briefed Ambassador Pamela White, the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, on key macroeconomic policy issues regarding the Haitian economy.

Invited expert. Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Washington D.C., May 15, 2012.

Gave a two-hour presentation to State Department Officials on Haiti's macroeconomic and fiscal situation in the post-earthquake period as part of the Haiti Advanced Area Studies Program.

Peer reviewer for the Open Budget Survey 2012 publication. International Budget Partnership, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C., April 2012.

Reviewed and assessed the accuracy and soundness of the questionnaire on budget accountability and transparency for the government of Trinidad and Tobago as part of the Open Budget Survey 2012. The survey focuses on transparency issues in 85 countries around the world.

Member. Fulbright National Public Policy Screening Committee., January 17, 2012.

Appointed to serve as member of the 2012-2013 National Screening Committee to select  U.S. graduate students who will serve in professional placements in foreign government ministries of the following eleven developing countries: Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, and Tunisia.