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| ROBERT L. METTS, PH.D | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, DISABILITY POLICY AND PLANNING INSTITUTE |
DATE OF BIRTH: |
February 1, 1951 |
| CITIZENSHIP: | USA |
| EDUCATION: | Ph.D. in Economics, specializing in Economic Development, International
Economics, and Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1985. Bachelor of Arts (Honors), specializing in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1972. |
| LANGUAGE: | English native speaker |
| COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE: |
Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Russia, United States |
| ADDRESS: | PO Box 144 Chilcoot, CA 96105 Phone: 530.993.1176 Fax: 530.993.0502 e-mail: metts @ disabilitypolicy.org |
Robert L. Metts is an Associate Professor of Economics serving on the Economics faculty of the University of Nevada Reno, and the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the Disability Policy and Planning Institute (DPPI). His research and teaching specialties are in economic development and international economics, and his work with DPPI is in the area of disability and development.
Dr. Metts is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on disability and development. He has over 20 years of professional and academic experience in the fields of Economic Development and Disability Policy. Since 1990 he has specialized in disability issues in developing countries, designing and evaluating disability related development programs and projects for most major bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and publishing important scholarly articles in the field. Dr. Metts has recently consulted with the World Bank to develop a conceptual framework for comprehensive integrated disability strategies, and co founded an institute, DPPI, to assist governments, development organizations and NGOs to develop policies, strategies and programs compatible with that framework.
Dr. Metts has also conducted archival research into the socioeconomic impacts of colonial economic systems, and conducted field and theoretical research into the social and economic impacts of food aid on recipient countries, with particular emphasis on food aid monetization programs.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno, July 1990 to present.
Courses taught: Graduate Seminar in Economic Development, Intermediate International Economics, Intermediate Economic Development, Microeconomic Principles, Macroeconomic Principles.
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, African Regional Research Program.
Conducted research on the impact of Official Development Assistance on people with disabilities in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. November 1995 through June 1996.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno, August 1984 to June 1990.
Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco, 1995.
Course taught: Economics of Rehabilitation.
Chief Executive Officer, Disability Policy and Planning Institute (DPPI), DPPI assists governments, multilateral and bilateral international organizations and non-governmental organizations to develop and implement appropriate and cost-effective disability policies, programs and strategies, April 1998 to present.
Consultant to Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), co-author of "Statistics, Costs of Disability and the Benefits of Access and Inclusion," and invited presenter on panel at the Annual meetings of the IDB Board of Governors, March, 2001.
Consultant to USAID, assisting Novosibirsk State University to design and implement Russia's first university support services and outreach program for disabled students, February 2000 to present.
Consultant to United Nations Secretariat, responsible for preparing a report on the economics of accessible architecture, Nov., Dec. 1999.
Consultant to the World Bank, responsible for examining the economic effects of disability and reviewing the costs and benefits of investing in people with disabilities in developing countries, May 1998 to February 2000.
Symposium Trainer and Planning Consultant to Mobility International USA for the International Symposium on Micro-Credit for Women with Disabilities, August 29 - September 7, 1998.
Principle Investigator, final evaluation of the World Institute on Disability/World Learning Foundation/USAID project to improve the viability of the businesses owned by the All Russia Society of the Disabled, November 1996.
Principle Investigator, Survey of Self-Directed Employment Programs for People with Disabilities in the United States, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, August 1994 to June 1995.
Principle Investigator, evaluation of the Business Training Program for the All Russia Society of the Disabled, sponsored by the World Institute on Disability, the World Learning Foundation, and USAID, May 1995 to July 1995.
Project Design Team Member, World Institute on Disability/World Learning Foundation/USAID project to improve the viability of the businesses owned by the All Russia Society of the Disabled, October 1994 through January 1995.
Project Evaluator, Wheeled Mobility Center/World Learning Foundation/USAID project, "Wheelchair Building in Novosibirsk: A Program of Economic and Social Development," August, 1994 through November, 1994.
Principal Investigator, needs assessment for the State of Nevada, Rehabilitation Division, June, 1993 - July, 1994.
External Collaborator, International Labour Organization (ILO), conducting an evaluation of an ILO business training and credit access project for disabled micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya, January 1993, Geneva, Switzerland and June-August 1993, Nairobi, Kenya.
"The Fatal Flaw in the Disability Adjusted Life Year," Disability and Society, forthcoming, 2001.
"Official Development Assistance to Disabled People in Ghana," with Nansea Metts, Disability and Society, 2000, London, England, Volume 15, Number 3, May 2000.
Disability Issues, Trends and Recommendations for the World Bank, World Bank, Social Protection (SP), SP Discussion Paper No. 0007, February 2000.
Disability Issues, Trends and Recommendations for the World Bank (Full Text and Annexes), World Bank, Social Protection (SP), SP Discussion Paper No. 0007, February 2000, [http://www.worldbank.org/sp/disability/documents_online/world_bank documents.]
"USAID, Disability and Development in Ghana: Analysis and Recommendations," with Nansea Metts, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, University of Arkansas, Volume 9, Number 1, 1998.
"Assisting Physically Disabled Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya: Implications for Developed Countries," Small Enterprise Development, Sussex, England, Volume IV, December, 1995.
"Self-employment Strategies for People with Disabilities in Kenya and the United States," in Switzer Monograph Number Nineteen, National Rehabilitation Association, Washington DC, December, 1995.
"Self-employment Strategies for People with Disabilities in the United States," International Journal of Practical Approaches to Disability, Calgary, Canada, Volume 19/Number Two, 1995.
"Economic Factors in Programs to Increase Agricultural Productivity," Food Forum, Food Aid Management, Washington, D.C., Issue Twelve, April, 1992.
"Monetization as a Price-Stabilization Tool," Food Forum, Food Aid Management, Washington, D.C., Issue Ten, December, 1991.
"Economic Development and the Terms of Trade; The Case of Kenya Colony, 1925-1963," Eastern Africa Economic Review, Nairobi, Kenya, Volume 6, Number 1, 1990.
"The Case for Including People with Disabilities in Development Assistance Activities," in the published proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meetings of the Society for Disability Studies, November, 1997.
"The Outlook for Participatory Action Research in Disability Studies," in E. Maakas, B. Haller, & T. Doe (Eds.), Accessing the Issues: Current Research in Disability Issues, Portland, ME: The Society for Disability Studies and The Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, 1997.
"Assisting Physically Disabled Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya: Lessons for North America," published in the proceedings of the First North American Regional Conference of Rehabilitation International, October, 1993.
"Third World Trade and Poverty: An Institutional Analytical Framework," abstract for a paper presented at the Twenty-Ninth International Atlantic Economic Conference. Published in the Atlantic Economic Journal, Volume XVIII, Number 3, Sept. 1990.
"Statistics, Costs of Disability and the Benefits of Access and Inclusion," forthcoming by the Inter-American Development Bank, January, 2001.
"Social and Economic Aspects of Accessibility," forthcoming, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development, Persons with Disabilities Web Site, [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disisea.htm], 2000.
"Planning for Disability," United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development, Persons with Disabilities Web Site [www.un.org/esa/socdev/disid98f.htm#1], 1998.
"The United States," chapter in Aldred Neufeldt and Alison Albright (Eds.), Disability and Self-Directed Employment: Business Development Models, Ontario, Canada: Captus University Publications, International Development Research Center, 1998, pp. 239-270.
"Assessment of a Business Skills Training and Loan Scheme for Disabled Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya," an ILO monograph in the series Community Integration of People with Disabilities, International Labour Organization, Geneva, 1994.
"An Examination of the Economics of Disability," prepared for the Human Development Network of the World Bank, September, 1999.
"Suggested World Bank Approach to Disability; Discussion Points for the Meeting of the International Working Group on Disability and Development," prepared for the Human Development Network of the World Bank, September 24 - 25, 1998.
"Report on the World Institute on Disability and the All Russia Society for the
Disabled Business Training Program" with Nansea Metts, prepared for the World
Institute on Disability, January 16, 1995.
"Nevada Rehabilitation Division Needs Analysis: Detailed Report and Appendices,"
with Merwin Mitchell, Theodore Oleson and Carole Popoff, prepared for the Nevada
Rehabilitation Division, March, 1995.
"The World Institute on Disability and the All Russia Society for the Disabled
Business Plan Training Evaluation," with Tracy Dodson Echeverria and Nansea Metts,
prepared for the World Institute on Disability, September,1995.
"Midterm Report on Wheelchair Building in Novosibirsk: A Program of Economic and Social Development," with Paul Jorgenson, Iveta Krobotova and Nansea Metts, prepared for the Wheeled Mobility Center, November, 1994.
"Report on the International Labor Organization Kenya Disabled Persons Loan Scheme, Project KEN/86/037," with Nansea Metts, Theodore Oleson and Tracy Dodson Echeverria, prepared for the International Labor Organization, November, 1993.
"An Analysis of Disability Related Official Development Assistance to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa in 1994-5," presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, Oakland, California, June, 1998.
"The Case for Including People with Disabilities in Development Assistance Activities," presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May, 1997.
"The Outlook for Participatory Action Research in Disability Studies," presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, Oakland, California, June, 1995.
"Self-employment Strategies for People with Disabilities in the United States," presented at the Entrepreneurship and Disability Workshop, Calgary, Canada, May, 1995.
"Assisting Physically Disabled Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya: Lessons for North America," presented at the First North American Regional Conference of Rehabilitation International, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1993.
"Land Institutions in Pre-Colonial Kenya, 1895-1920," presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Missouri Valley Economic Association, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991.
"International Trade and Poverty in Developing Nations: An Institutional Analytical Framework," presented at the 29th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, March 1990.
"Economic Development and the Terms of Trade; The Case of Kenya Colony 1925-1963," presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Missouri Valley Economic Association, Memphis, Tennessee, 1990.
"An Institutional Analysis of the Relationship Between International Trade and Poverty in Colonial Uganda," presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association, Portland, Oregon, 1990.
"Institutions and Poverty in Colonial Kenya," presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1989.
"Economic Development and International Trade; The Case of Colonial Uganda, 1894-1962," presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association Denver, Colorado, 1988.
"Toward a Multi-Disciplinary Model for Assessing the Determinants of Economic Underdevelopment in Specific Countries or Regions," co-author Carlos Peraza, presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association, Denver, Colorado, 1988.
"Economic Development and the Single Factoral Terms of Trade: The Case of Kenya Colony and Protectorate, 1895 - 1963," presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association, Reno, Nevada, 1986.
"Social and Economic Aspects of Accessibility," invited lecture presented at the United Nations International Seminar - Environmental Accessibility, Planning and Design of Accessible Urban Development in Developing Countries, Beirut, Lebanon, December 1999.
"Planning for Disability," invited lecture presented as part of the United Nations' annual observation of the International Day of the Disabled, United Nations Headquarters New York, December 3, 1998.
"International Disability Economics," invited lecture at the University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Business, Department of Rehabilitation Administration graduate program, San Francisco, California, April 10, 1995.
"Implications for Disability Policy Research of Lessons Learned in the Field," invited lecture to the staff of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Washington D.C., August 10, 1994.
Member, US Department of Transportation Round Table on Accessible Transportation, Washington DC, September 16-20, 2000.
Member, World Bank panel of experts on disability and development, World Bank Human Development Week meetings, Washington, DC, March 4-6 1998.
Member, National Council on Disability, International Watch Committee, Washington D.C., January 1996 -present.
1995 Switzer Scholar, National Rehabilitation Association.
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