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Warren E. Buffett, who has been concerned about the threats from weapons of mass destruction for four decades, serves as an Advisor to NTI's Board of Directors. Mr. Buffett is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities and controlled by him since 1965. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s business activities include the underwriting of property and casualty insurance and a wide variety of manufacturing, retailing and service companies. Mr. Buffett started out as an investment salesman and securities analyst, and early in his career he created his own investment partnership. Mr. Buffett also serves as a Director of The Washington Post Company and is a life trustee of Grinnell College and The Urban Institute. Mr. Buffett attended the Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania and in 1950 received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska. He earned his M.S. in Economics from Columbia University in 1951.

Joel L. Fleishman has been a Director of Boston Scientific since 1992. He is also Professor of Law and Public Policy at Duke University where he has served in various administrative positions, including First Senior Vice President, since 1971. Mr. Fleishman is a founding member of the governing board of the Duke Center for Health Policy Research and Education and was the founding director from 1971 to 1983 of Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He is the director of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions and the director of the Duke University Philanthropic Research Program. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Fleishman took a part time leave from Duke University to serve as President of the Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company, the U.S. program staff of Atlantic Philanthropies. Mr. Fleishman also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Center for Effective Philanthropy and the Partnership for Public Service, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Institute, Chairman of The Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and as a director of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation. Mr. Fleishman received A.B., M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an LL.M. degree from Yale University.

Bernardo Levy is the Chief Technology Officer and Webmaster for Orrington Strategies, and has over twenty-five years of experience leading large computer engineering efforts. He has developed numerous new products and holds several patents in chip design, PBXs, desktop computers and software. He has led major projects for Burroughs, the Urban Institute, Zenith Data Systems and Tellabs. Bernardo is known for his ability to solve complex problems through innovative approaches and tenacity. Bernardo received his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and also has a dual Bachelors in Physics and Mathematics from Instituto Technologico, Monterrey, Mexico.

Mr. Golda is a mid-level municipal service improvement and monitoring and evaluation specialist with specific expertise in survey design, the design and management of technical assistance to support decentralization, and the implementation of humanitarian assistance programming. He has worked in Armenia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Mr. Golda served as Chief of Party of the Georgia IDP Housing Voucher program which provided durable shelter to IDP families displaced by Georgia's civil conflicts. Currently Mr. Golda is working in Pakistan to improve municipal service delivery in 30 local governments as well as developing a survey of citizen opinions about the form and functions of local government. He holds an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Carol Rabenhorst is an internationally-recognized senior legal expert in real estate law, property rights, and mortgage finance. She has worked in 25 developing and transitioning economies in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Southern Asia to reform the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks relating to the establishment and improvement of property rights, registration systems, and real estate markets in these various country contexts. She has frequently served as legal component leader for assessment of conditions in relevant sectors and for development and implementation of recommendations for long-term interventions, including drafting or amending laws, regulations, institutional arrangements, and mortgage lending procedures and documentation. Ms. Rabenhorst is Program Lead for the Finance and Housing Program within the Center on International Development and Governance at the Urban Institute, and as such is responsible for managing and providing technical input for numerous projects within those sectors. Prior to her international work for the Urban Institute, Ms. Rabenhorst was engaged in the private practice of law for 14 years. A partner in a Washington, DC law firm, she specialized in real estate law and commercial and residential property development.

Carol Thompson Cole is managing partner of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), a philanthropic investment organization that helps great leaders build strong, high-performing nonprofit institutions. At VPP, Cole is responsible for managing the VPP portfolio of investment partners, the investment process, and the in-house professionals that comprise the VPP Investment Team. Cole brings to VPP over twenty years of management experience in the public and private sectors, as well as a strong history of leadership in the National Capital Region's nonprofit community and local government. She is Vice President, Project Planning for the Federal City Council; and serves on the Leadership Council of Brookings Greater Washington Research Center; the Greater Washington Advisory Board of SunTrust; the Board of Trustees of Wesley Theological Seminary and the Summit Fund; and is a Lifetime Trustee of the Urban Institute. Her past board roles include serving as founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the DC Agenda Support Corporation, and as a Trustee of Smith College and Trinity College. Cole is Advisor to Curtex Construction/The Curtex Group, a company that provides services in the areas of management consulting, organizational development, government relations, and community affairs to faith based organizations and community development corporations. The practice has also advised corporate CEOs on diversity as a business imperative. She served as Special Advisor to President Clinton on the District of Columbia and Executive Director of the DC Inter-Agency Task Force, Executive Office of the President, where she was "point person" to the President on the District. In this position, she played a key role in developing ways the federal government could assist Washington, DC achieve and sustain financial stability, reliable services, and economic growth. She worked closely with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and other senior Administration officials. Prior to serving in the Clinton administration, Cole was the Vice President for Government and Environmental Affairs at RJR Nabisco, where she developed a corporate-wide environmental program that ensured that all business activities were carried out in an environmentally responsible manner and in compliance with federal, state, and local standards; served as corporate spokesperson on environmental issues; and functioned as a Washington representative monitoring public policy issues. She spent twelve years in the government of the District of Columbia holding major management and staff positions, most notably as the first woman (and, at the time, the youngest person) to be appointed City Administrator. She also served as Deputy Mayor for Operations, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the Mayor, Director, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Acting Director, Department of Licenses, Investigations, and Inspections, Special Assistant to the City Administrator for Regulatory Affairs, Special Assistant to the Director, Department of Housing and Community Development, and State Historic Preservation Officer.

Colby Clabaugh joined UI's Center on International Development and Governance (IDG) in June 2008. Mr. Clabaugh provides budgetary, contractual, and technical support to several UI projects including Ethiopia Financial Transparency and Accountability Survey (FTAPS), MCC Benin Impact Evaluation, MCC Lesotho Land Administration Reform, and Study on Aid Effectiveness in the Infrastructure Sector. In addition to his project support responsibilities, Mr. Clabaugh coordinates Center communications and assists in the preparation of cost and technical proposals. His principal areas of interest are civic engagement, institutional development, and democratic local governance. Prior to joining UI, he worked on forest and land tenure reform for Rights and Resources Group (RRG) in Washington, DC and on USAID's Health Systems 20/20 project for Abt Associates in Bethesda, MD. Mr. Clabaugh holds a BA in International Affairs and Political Science from The George Washington University.

Cristian Murariu holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Energy and Environment. Since 2002 he has been working with USAID development projects aimed at improving municipal services in Moldova, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Mr. Murariu acquired management skills as a Senior Program Specialist/Acting Chief of Party for USAID Local Government Reform Project in Moldova where, among other accomplishments, he managed the implementation of 160 demonstration projects in water and wastewater systems, solid waste management, gas distribution systems, roads, and rehabilitation of public buildings. Mr. Murariu is an expert in water systems design and modeling, energy efficiency improvements, utility operational audits, improving commercial systems - including metering and metered billing based on full recovery tariffs, equipment procurement and leak detection/pipe location.

Dan Goldhaber (Ph.D., Cornell University) is a research associate professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington and an affiliated scholar of the Urban Institute's Education Policy Center. He also served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from 1997-2002. Goldhaber's research focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level and the relationship between teacher labor markets and teacher quality. Topics of published work in these areas include studies of the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement, the impact of teacher pay structure on the teacher labor market, the relative efficiency of public and private schools, and policy analyses of accountability systems and market competition (vouchers) on K-12 schooling. His work has appeared in Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Education Finance, Education Economics, Education Matters/Next, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Researcher, and Phi Delta Kappan. Goldhaber's current research addresses the effects of the Opportunity Scholarship ("voucher") Program in Florida on schools, teachers, and students; the implementation and impact of various comprehensive school reform models; teacher labor markets and the role that teacher pay structure plays in teacher recruitment and retention; and the effects of National Board Certification.

Deborah Kimble has 25 years of experience in local government issues, including work as a local government official in the United States and as a technical advisor in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. She specializes in the issues of governance specifically, the structure and performance of local government as they relate to economic growth, poverty reduction, and the democratic process. She has served as a principal advisor on USAID/USAEP projects on community-based economic development and local government in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand as well as throughout the former Soviet Union and Southern Africa. In September 2008, Ms. Kimble took up residence in Cambodia where she will lead a UI project on sub-national democratic development. Areas of Expertise: Local government management and governance; local economic development; human resource development; and citizen engagement.

Ms. Brookins, a Research Associate with the Urban Institute since 2008, has seven years of experience in international development, policy, and urban development issues. Ms. Brookins provides technical and program support for the Urban Institute's international projects in local government reform, performance management/municipal service improvement, and urban development. She is currently supporting proposal development for a number of Africa-focused initiatives and is leading the formulation of an urban development strategy that is inclusive of addressing urban poverty through services, economic development, and improved local governance. In her prior work with Africare, she provided technical assistance and capacity building for civil society organizations. Ms. Brookins has also designed and facilitated strategic planning and monitoring and evaluation of programs and conducted baseline needs assessments on organizational capacity of local civil society organizations. Recently she completed a project that produced su

Brazzell, Diana is a Research Associate in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Ms. Brazzell is involved in several research projects on topics including prisoner reentry, local jails, faith-based programming, and justice mapping. She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in public policy.

Elaine Sorensen is a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, where she has worked for 17 years. Her current research focuses on low-income families and child support policy. Before that, she examined women's employment and comparable worth policies. Sorensen has published extensively on these issues and is routinely called upon to provide expert advice to policy makers, administrators, and the public. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sorensen received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. Prior to her election to the Policy Council, most of her professional service work has focused on integrating research into the programs and activities of the National Child Support Enforcement Association.

Emily Mytkowicz joined the Urban Institute as a Research Assistant/Project Coordinator in October 2007. Ms. Mytkowicz provides contractual, technical, and logistical support to the home office as well as the Center's field offices for local government accountability and citizen participation programs. She is the Project Coordinator for the Greater Transparency and Accountability in Government program in Honduras and the Local Government and Citizen Participation program in Tajikistan. She also conducts research on development sector trends and future business opportunities and contributes to the writing and preparation of cost and technical proposals. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, Ms. Mytkowicz earned a BA in International Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked as an intern with a local microfinance institution in Juliaca, Peru.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Middle Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University. He has worked for over four years as a Research Assistant, first for several professors at Brigham Young, and most recently at the Urban Institute. He joined J-PAL in 2008 and assists with analysis of data from randomized evaluations.

Mr. Conway, a Senior Associate at the Urban Institute since 1994, has more than 30 years of experience with urban planning; fiscal decentralization policy analysis and reform; and local finance in developing and transitioning countries. He has conducted research on local government and directed support for decentralization reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia), Newly Independent States (NIS) Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan), and Asia (Cambodia and Pakistan). Currently he is engaged in UI local government programs in Cambodia, Honduras, and Pakistan. Much of his work has focused on identifying and implementing lasting mechanisms to finance and improve basic services in urban areas, with emphasis on efforts to extend such services to poor urban households. Areas of Expertise: Fiscal decentralization; intergovernmental finance; local tax and fee administration; water sector decentralization; capital and performance-based budgeting; municipal credit financing; and urban growth management and planning.

Ms. Mikeska is a licensed Civil and Environmental Engineer with over 17 years' experience managing and delivering technical assistance for large-scale, international development projects in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the former Soviet Union, Asia, Latin America, the Near East, and North America. Since joining the Urban Institute in 1999, Ms. Mikeska has served as a Resident Advisor in Montenegro and has provided technical assistance and training related to building the capacity of municipalities to deliver communal services and assisting them to define and prioritize their investment needs and financing options throughout CEE and the former Soviet Union (Albania, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine, and Tajikistan) as well as in Indonesia. She has also worked extensively with local NGOs, local citizens, and industrial enterprises to establish Pollution Prevention Centers using focus groups to identify facilities and processes that are good candidates for introducing waste minimization practices. Earlier, she designed water/wastewater treatment facilities for a number of small communities and supervised their construction. Ms. Mikeska holds an MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA in International Finance from Northeastern University. She is a registered professional engineer.

Iman Ahmed is a Research Assistant/Project Coordinator at the Urban Institute's Center on International Development and Governance (IDG). Ms. Ahmed joined IDG in October 2007 and has developed an interest in housing policy, local economic development, and anti-corruption. She has a regional interest in the Middle East and is semi-fluent in Arabic. She is currently the Project Coordinator for the Pakistan Districts That Work project, for which she coordinates with project field staff and consultants, prepares budgets, monitors and reviews expenditures and cost forecasts, prepares financial reports, coordinates contractual issues, and prepares and edits deliverables. In November 2008 she will join IDG's MCC Anti-Corruption projects as a short-term resident advisor in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Dr. Jamie Boex is a senior public finance expert with extensive experience in fiscal decentralization reforms and fiscal policy reforms in developing and transition countries around the world. Working with organizations such as the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, and numerous other bilateral development agencies, Dr. Boex has contributed to policy reforms in over fifteen developing and transition countries around the world, including Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Republic of Georgia, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Timor-Leste and Uganda. Dr. Boex has authored and contributed to numerous books, book chapters, articles, and reports on intergovernmental finance (fiscal decentralization), public expenditure management, and poverty reduction. In addition to his academic research and expertise in the management and provision of technical assistance, Dr. Boex has considerable experience in the development and delivery of academic courses and professional training programs in the areas of fiscal decentralization and other areas of public finance. As a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Boex does not only use situation analysis and comparative international analyses to assess fiscal conditions, but frequently applies a variety of quantitative analytical techniques in order to inform evidence-based policy advice and policy recommendations. At the same time, Dr. Boex continually seeks to place public finance and intergovernmental fiscal relations within the context of each country's institutional (administrative) and political (governance) traditions. Dr. Boex has a PhD in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) at Georgia State University (1999). He is a member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the National Tax Association (NTA), the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM). Areas of expertise: Fiscal decentralization; intergovernmental fiscal architecture; the design and implementation of intergovernmental transfer systems; intergovernmental fiscal flows; the political economy of intergovernmental finance; subnational budget transparency; public expenditure management; pro-poor public spending; public expenditure reviews (PERs); health sector finance; and anti-corruption.

Karla Vayanis joined the Urban Institute's Center on International Development and Governance in June 2008 as a Research Assistant/Project Coordinator. At IDG, Ms. Vayanis helps manage and conduct extensive research on several of the Urban Institute's projects: Turkmenistan Community Empowerment Project, Montenegro Sustainable Tourism Development Project, and the MCA Honduras Impact Evaluation. Her duties also include data analysis, coordination with project field staff and consultants, budget preparation and monitoring, reviewing expenditures and cost forecasts, preparing financial reports, coordinating contractual issues, writing proposals, and preparation of deliverables. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, Ms. Vayanis worked for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington, DC. Ms. Vayanis received a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park in Government & Politics and Economics, with an emphasis on international relations, and a Certificate in Multi-Track Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation. She speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Ms. Mark has almost 20 years of international experience in performance management, local governance, and urban issues. Ms. Mark recently directed a decentralization project in Ethiopia working with regional and local governments to build capacity in a range of key areas. She designed and led efforts in Honduras and Albania to help local governments incorporate performance management and citizen feedback into their budgeting, decision-making, and resource allocation to improve service delivery and responsiveness to citizens. Ms. Mark has designed and carried out citizen surveys on government services in several countries, including a recent survey in Ethiopia on financial transparency and accountability of local governments. In Benin she is carrying out an impact evaluation of MCA projects in access to land and access to financial services for micro, small, and medium enterprises. Ms. Mark has provided training and technical assistance to staff of several multilateral donors (IADB, World Bank, and UN-Habitat) on monitoring project outcomes. She has worked in Colombia and in Peru to help introduce performance-based budgeting and governing for results at both the national and the local levels. She has helped develop a number of manuals and guides to help local governments use performance management. Ms. Mark helped develop materials for state legislators and local elected officials in the United States to encourage the use of outcome information in decision-making and oversight. Ms. Mark directed the USAID housing and municipal technical assistance program in Hungary between 1992 and 1999, covering such areas as local government finance, infrastructure finance, municipal management, and housing policy. Areas of Expertise: Performance management and measurement; local governance; and urban policy and management.

Kim Rueben is a senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution and is a member of the Strategic Planning Group. She is an expert on education policy and state and local and education finance, state and local government budget decisions and the economics of education. She will collaborate on studies across the center and will also work on supplementary projects. Dr. Rueben is a public finance economist and is an expert on California's education system. She was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and is now an adjunct fellow. She has co-authored projects examining both the distribution of teachers and resources across California's schools and studied teacher labor markets in California. Dr. Rueben has also been a visiting scholar at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank (2002-2003) and an adjunct professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley (1998-1999) and Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2006-2007) . She is currently serving on the executive board of the American Education Finance Association. She received her Ph.D. from M.I.T in economics.

Ms. Engelman, a Research Assistant/Project Coordinator at the Urban Institute since June 2008, has more than a year of experience working in the international sector. She is responsible for managing and conducting extensive research for several of the Urban Institute's projects including Indonesia Control of Corruption, China Mortgage Lending, Cambodia Support for Formulation of the National Program for Sub-national Democratic Development, and Kazakhstan Policy Dialogue. She is also involved in proposal development at UI. Prior to joining UI, Ms. Engelman served as the Student Director for the Tucker Foundation of Service Learning and Ethical Leadership at Dartmouth College. She also served on an Assessment Committee at Dartmouth in which capacity she helped to formulate an international program in Latin America focused on community development, public health, and educational and cultural exchange. In 2007, Ms. Engelman received a grant to conduct fieldwork in healthcare and youth development in Peru. She earned her BA in Human Biology from Dartmouth College, where her coursework also encompassed the fields of Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and Healthcare Policy and Practice.

As MCC's new KIDS COUNT Coordinator, Lauren is formulating a working group which will conduct research on child poverty data and draft a special report in the Fall of 2007 that will include legislative and public policy recommendations. She is MCC's liaison to the national KIDS COUNT project and consultants from The Urban Institute, Child Trends, Inc., The Frameworks Institute, National Association of Child Advocates, and others. In addition, Lauren also is an integral part of MCC's grant-writing efforts, and serves as an Associate to the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership. Lauren received her BSW from Providence College and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania.

Leigh Thompson, an International Project Administrator who has been with the Urban Institute since 2007, provides technical, financial, and contractual support for IDG's international projects. She also assists with project startup, closeout, and other short-term field assignments. Ms. Thompson conducts research and data analysis for projects and proposals primarily related to economic development and local governance. She oversees the procurement and ongoing monitoring of project subcontracts, grants, other services, and equipment. Her financial management responsibilities include the preparation and monitoring of project budgets, expense reports, accruals, regular financial reports on project expenditures, and project cost forecasts. Ms. Thompson is also responsible for preparing and reviewing cost proposal budgets and ensuring compliance with cost proposal requirements. In addition, she provides oversight and training to Research Assistants working in IDG. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, Ms. Thompson worked for Transparency Inter

Since joining the Urban Institute in June 2008, Leslie Parker has worked on the $26-million Districts That Work project in Pakistan. She is responsible for data analysis, coordination with project field staff and consultants, budget preparation and monitoring, reviewing expenditures and cost forecasts, preparing financial reports, coordinating contractual issues, proposal writing, and preparation of deliverables. Prior to joining UI, Ms. Parker worked for an environmental NGO, where she served as an outreach and development intern. She also previously held a position as a lobbying intern for a London-based international environmental network. Ms. Parker graduated from the Institute of Political Science in Aix-en-Provence, France where she majored in Comparative Politics and Latin American Studies. She is particularly interested in the comparative study of the welfare state and its place in the global economy, issues she examined while studying for a year in New Zealand.

Ms. Baghdasarian, an Administrative Associate at the Urban Institute since June 2000, has more than 17 years of experience working in the international sector. She is responsible for managing and coordinating IDG's workflow; serving as a liaison between the home office and overseas offices/centers; providing administrative support to IDG's worldwide projects; overseeing IDG's time reporting process and allowances; tracking all internal expenditures; coordinating travel arrangements and planning; updating and improving Center administrative systems and procedures; and scheduling and coordinating meetings, retreats, and other events. Prior to joining the Urban Institute, Ms. Baghdasarian held a position with Partners in Economic Reform (PIER) in Washington DC, where she worked closely with US governmental organizations, management and labor organizations in the Newly Independent States (NIS), and Solidarity representatives from Poland. Following her arrival in the US from Armenia in 1991, Ms. Baghdasarian started working for MRM Language Research Center where she developed an Eastern Armenian-English dictionary and an Armenian-English journalism textbook. As an independent contractor/translator, she translated numerous training manuals for the State Department. Ms. Baghdasarian received an MA from Yerevan State Pedagogical University (Armenia) in Pedagogics with an emphasis on methods of teaching a second language. She has headed the department of Foreign Languages at the Armenian Ministry of Education, and has traveled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She speaks English, Armenian, and Russian fluently, and has a working knowledge of French, Bulgarian, and several other Slavic languages.

Nancy is a Senior Consultant with Signature Resources and a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. She is especially interested in service coordination and workforce issues. Recently completed policy studies include a paper on skills shortages in nursing; a study of advancement opportunities for low-wage workers in the health care, child care, and hospitality industries; a study of the coordination between welfare and workforce development systems; and a paper on the privatization of social services. Ms. Pindus conducted a three-year evaluation of the Health Passport demonstration project for the Western Governors' Association. Health Passport uses "smart card" technology to facilitate coordination, information sharing, and client empowerment in health and social services programs for pregnant women and children. Ms. Pindus regularly serves as a grant reviewer for the Health Resources and Service Administration, Bureau of Primary Care, and has reviewed grant applications for Community Health Center expansions, Expanded Medical Capacity, and the Health Care Access Program.