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Richard A. Krasnow Ph.D.

Expertise

  • Company management across all functional areas, excepting core technical biopharmaceutical areas .
  • Wide scientific background, spanning physics, biology and economics.
  • Broad international experience, working, studying and living overseas; foreign language skills.
  • Over 40 years experience in Information Technology.
 

Professional Experience

1996 - Present Principal and Operating Director
Salamandra, LLC, Bethesda, MD
  • Founding LLC Member and co-owner.
  • Responsible for company management and day-to-day operations for all functional areas other than technical areas in the biopharmaceutical domain.
1992 -
1993		 Senior Associate
Global Technology Management, Inc. Bethesda, MD
  • Consultant in: Patterns of Environmental Management in OECD Countries; Environmental Program for the Mediterranean; Institutions for Environmental Management in Latin America and the Caribbean, all sponsored by the World Bank.
  • Developed and taught Energy, Environment, and U.S. Economic Interests training program for the Foreign Service Institute.
1992-
1993 		Consultant
Free Market Training Program in Russia
  • Consulted for this winning proposal to a major telecommunications firm; the Children's Environmental Campaign (EarthForce); and the National Wildlife Federation writing “Trade and Environment: The Energy Link” .
  • Senior Advisor for the USAID Staff Strengthening Through Environmental Training (ASSET) Project .
1992-
1997

Project DIrector and Team Leader
Institute of International Education, Washington, D.C.

  • Developed and managed technical training programs in wide range of energy and environment subjects for participants from developing countries, including Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Standards and Codes (offered twice in Mexico); Energy Efficiency Product Labeling (offered twice in the U.S., for Asian and Latin American participants) .
  • Developed and managed programs on renewable energy, the environment, medical and health sciences, banking, and agriculture, such as Environmental Policy Development and Implementation, Data Utilization and Management for Environmental Decision Making, Air Pollution Control Technologies, Ambient Air Quality Monitoring, Stationary Source Air Pollution Monitoring, Solar Electricity Technologies, Small Hydroelectric Technology, Technology Choices in Renewable Energy, Geothermal Exploration and Resource Characterization, Diesel Electric Power Generation, Fundamentals of Power Plant Operations .
  • Responsible for general program management duties including program development and marketing, budgetary matters, and reporting and other contractual requirements.
  • Fund-raised and successfully obtained support from the Trade and Development Program and trade associations .
1990-
1992 		Manager, Enviromental Programs, Department of Science and Technology
  • Development and management of environmental and renewable energy training programs for professionals from developing countries, Eastern Europe, and the U.S. Agency for International Development .
1989-
1990		 Manager, Science and Technology Programs, Department of Science and Technology
  • Development and management of A.I.D.-sponsored Energy Training Program for professionals from developing countries and the Eastern Bloc, in diverse subject areas including energy, the environment, medical and health sciences, and agriculture.
  • Fieldwork in Latin America (in Spanish) and in Egypt (designed and delivered hands-on training in Management Information Systems for Human Resource Development) .
1987-
1989		 Science and Technology Officer, Department of Science and Technology
  • Management of USAID-funded Energy Training Program.
Apr 1985 -
Jul 1986		 Fellow, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy
Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
  • Initiated study on impacts of new technologies on agriculture.
  • Organized conference, edited and contributed to volume on Policy Aspects of Climate Forecasting.
1981 -
1982		 AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow, 97th Congress
House of Representatives, W ashington, D.C.
  • Worked for Congressman George E. Brown, Jr., the Agriculture subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture, and the Science subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology.
  • Organized hearings on Impact of National Security Considerations on Science and Technology and on Agricultural Development in the Caribbean and Central America; worked on science and technology, and foreign policy.
  • Attended CRS Legislative Institutes through the Graduate (an intensive four day exercise in which staff take the place of Congressmen and carry a complex bill from hearing to floor passage and Senate conference).

 

Professional Activities

  • Invited presenter, The Natural Clientele as a Unifying Concept, Binational Conference on the Relevance of the University in Development, Mexico City, 1995
  • Environmental economics instructor, Foreign Service Institute Pilot Course on Energy, the Environment, and U.S. Economic Interests, 1994
  • Lecturer, Topics in Technology, Energy Planning and Policy Course, University of Pennsylvania Energy Center, 1990
  • Panelist, A.A.A.S. Seminar on Picking up the Pace: The Commercial Challenge to American Innovation report by the Council on Competitiveness, 1988
  • Advisory Panel member, New Directions in Biotechnology Study, U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1986-1988
  • Workshop leader and rapporteur, Workshop on Food Safety and Quality, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Airlie, VA, 1986
  • Discussant on New Technology in the Food System, National Conference on “New Technology in Agriculture: Rising Productivity, U.S. Farm Policy, and International Trade”, NCFAP and Food and Agriculture Committee of the National Planning Association, Des Moines, IA, 1986
  • Discussant on Technological Change in Agriculture, Conference on Agriculture and the Environment, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Washington, D.C., 1986
  • Rapporteur, Conference on Crop Productivity - Research Imperatives, Airlie, VA, 1985
  • Panelist, Ag Lands Forum on The Future of American Agriculture, 1985
  • Delegate for the A.A.A.S., Jamaican Soc. Sci. Tech. Workshop on Science and Technology Education in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica, 1983
  • Rapporteur, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Needs of the Caribbean Countries in Science and Technology, 1982
  • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Education

  • M.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics, London, England (1984)
  • Postdoctoral Harvard Medical School Biophysical Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts (1973-75)
    Harvard University Biological Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1975-81)
  • Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
    Statistical Thermodynamics (1973)
  • S.B. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1967)

Honors, Awards, and Certifications

  • Edward Shils Studentship, London School of Economics 1983-84
  • A.A.A.S. Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship 1981-82
  • N.I.H. Postgraduate Fellowships 1973-75; 1975-76
  • Society of Sigma Xi (Science Honor Society) 1967
  • IAESTE International Exchange Scholarship, Milan, Italy 1966

Publications

  • Click here for a list of publications.

International Experience and Foreign Languages

  • Brought up in Brazil, of an Argentine family; fully fluent in Portuguese, Spanish;
  • Lived and studied in England
  • Managed or worked on projects in Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Central America and the Caribbean, Sri Lanka
  • Extensively traveled on work assignments as well as personal travel
  • Can converse in, and read Italian and French

 

 

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