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Resource Economist, Planner & Author
Ms Hoisington is a resource economist, planner and author with 20 years of field experience in the US, Asia, Africa, Former Soviet Union and Europe. She has worked with numerous development agencies, including The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), several bilateral aid agencies, including USAID, DGIS (Netherlands) and GTZ (Germany), as well as with United Nations agencies, the European Union, non-governmental organizations and commercial firms.
Hoisington has participated in national planning and policy work and sector studies (World Bank and DGIS-funded National Water Resources Planning work in Indonesia, National Water Resources master-planning in Egypt and Turkey, World Bank Forestry Sector work on several projects in India and the first World Bank Agricultural Sector Studies in Russia and Kazakhstan). She has been resource economist, environmental economist and/or regional planner on project preparation and implementation teams in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet Union, and she has been team leader on numerous occasions, including for large multinational teams. She has been economist on planning projects to clean up (Suzhou Creek; Yunnan Lakes) and/or reduce sediment transport (Yellow River) in rivers in China with Delft Hydraulics Institute.
All of Hoisington’s work has included report-writing and often aural presentation. Most papers have been part of loan project preparation work (The World Bank, ADB, others) or sector studies (The World Bank) or national planning agencies (Indonesia, Egypt, China, Sri Lanka, etc.) and as such are not public documents. Some work has been published, including a book, listed below. She has been involved in teaching, training and capacity-building activities on many of her assignments. She now lives in Sydney, Australia.
GHG professional
GHG professional with broad experience in general management, engineering design and construction, quality, safety and environmental management for a broad range of industry and service sectors. Recent experience in the review and assessment of climate change related projects and activities, specifically in the verification of greenhouse abatement projects, emission inventories and greenhouse lifecycle inventories; review of regulatory compliance; assessment of the effectiveness of projects and formulation of critical improvement recommendations.
These activities at a project and corporate level have significant interaction with the broader strategic opportunities for organisations exposed to climate change regulation. This has extended over recent years to involvement in the development of corporate social responsibility standards and the assessment of corporate social responsibility reports
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