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Dr. Kingsley E. Haynes
Governmental Affairs, Issue Research

Dr. Kingsley Haynes has earned B.A. degrees in history, geography, and political science from Western Michigan University; an M.A. in geography from Rutgers University; and a Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Texas, and Boston University. At Boston University, he served as Chairman of the Department of Geography, Professor of Geography and Professor of Public Policy. He is currently the Dean of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Haynes has directed international programs for the Ford Foundation's Office of Resources and Environment and the U.S. EPA.

Dr. Haynes is the co-author of five books and has authored more than 300 articles and professional papers that have been published in numerous scholarly journals. He has also presented more than 100 invited conference papers and lectures on such topics as “Environment and Development,” “Diffusion of Public Policies,” “Multi-Objective Location Analysis and Energy Facility Sitting,” “The Impact of Smart Infrastructure on Domestic and International Competitiveness,” and “The Concept of Uncertainty and its Impact on Regional and Economic Development.”

Dr. Haynes has been involved in regional economic development, natural resource management and environmental planning in Montana's Yellowstone Basin, in the Lake Michigan and Ohio River regions of Indiana, and in the Texas coastal zone. Using mathematical programming techniques for evaluating resource utilization for energy facility location and economic simulation for community water supply alternatives, he has been active in state resource assessments in Texas, Indiana, and Massachusetts. His Midwestern studies focused on environmental and energy-resource policy in the urban and rural context.

Dr. Haynes has been an advisor, consultant or project leader with New York City's Central Manhattan Circulation Study; Texas Land Office; Texas Governor's Office; Indiana's Departments of Commerce, Natural Resources, Economic Development Council and the Vocational and Technical College System. His federal government work includes HEW, DOC, DOD, NSF, EPA, DOT (FAA, FTA, FHWA, BTS), USAID, and the Policy Research and Analysis Division of the National Science Foundation. Internationally, he has worked with the Civil Aviation Authority in Brazil, the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology and its National Research Center, Jordan's Marine Research Center, the Sudan's National Research Council; state governments in Saudi Arabia, Australia and the Taiwan EPA. Dr. Haynes has been involved in higher education management in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Massachusetts and Virginia, Canada, Malaysia and Kuwait. He has done strategic planning for private organizations (e.g., Xerox, Exxon) and public organizations (e.g., in southwest Pennsylvania, Indianapolis and Boston and the Kaohsiung Metropolitan Foundation).

Dr. Haynes' areas of expertise include resource and environmental management, urban and regional economic development and planning, economic geography, regional science, social systems modeling, policy analysis, land-use analysis, coastal zone management and governmental affairs. His extensive background provides the Firm’s clients with innovative solutions.

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