Brief Resume

1. David C. Jones, CPFA, FCCA. (UK)
David Jones (British Citizen) has over forty-five years of experience as practitioner, educator,
consultant and author in financial management. He has specialized, throughout his career, in the
finance and management of local and state governments and public utilities. He was, until
recently, Vice-president for Accountability at MIDEGO [Global Partnerships, Reaching Global
Health Care Goals]. Specializing in accounting, budgeting, and financial management, he has
provided advice and guidance to central, state and local governments, development institutions,
non-profit organizations, utilities and companies in over 50 countries. Currently, he is the
honorary auditor of an NGO, associated with the World Bank.
Affiliated with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, from 1987 to 2005, Mr. Jones
was a Research Fellow and part-time Instructor at its Center for Urban Development Studies. He
continues to be associated with former Harvard colleagues at The Institute for International
Urban Development, a non-profit institution close to Harvard’s Cambridge campus. Since
leaving the full-time staff of the World Bank, in 1987, Mr. Jones, as President of “Farsight,” has
been consulting, teaching and training, in financial management and institutional development.
In the early nineties, he taught Public Finance, for the Master in Public Administration degree, at
George Mason University, Northern Virginia. He has lectured for the Master in Urban Planning
Degree and the International Training and Education Programs at the Harvard Graduate Design
School. He has also taught at the World Bank Institute and at many other institutions, world-
wide, including Witwatersrand University in South Africa and the University of Malawi.
For seventeen years, at the World Bank (1970-87), he was a senior financial analyst and then the
Bank’s financial advisor, in the public utilities, water supply and urban development sectors. At
the World Bank, and as a consultant, he worked extensively on the preparation, appraisal,
negotiation and supervision of (loan-funded and grant-funded) urban development and public
utility projects. He also helped to develop improved budgeting and accounting systems of
municipalities, utilities and other institutions. Mr. Jones has developed and participated in many
international seminars on public sector accounting and financial management. He has been a
keynote speaker at many of these, worldwide, where he has worked in over fifty countries.
In the late nineties, he was designated by Harvard Center for Urban Development Studies, as
Principal Specialist in Budgeting and Public Financial Management for a two-year USAID-
funded Local Government Assistance Project in Romania. He has also worked in other countries
of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Macedonia, the former Yugoslavia, Poland and Albania. In
addition, he has worked in China, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia,
Mongolia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa and many other countries, especially in Africa.
David Jones is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant and a Chartered Certified Accountant
of the United Kingdom. His final examinations, for the former, included specialist diplomas in
local government law and local government finance. Mr. Jones has studied and taught
commercial, criminal and constitutional law, as well as participating in several Harvard Business
School seminars, on teaching accounting by the case method. He has also studied Economics,
Mathematics, Statistics and British Constitution, with London University (External).

2. From his long experience in financial management, Mr. Jones, single-handedly, authored the
textbook: “Municipal Accounting for Developing Countries.” This is a 900-page manual,
published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the World Bank.
This is, likely, the most detailed and comprehensive textbook on accounting, ever written by a
single author. It was prescient, in developing techniques for public sector accrual accounting!
He has also authored many other publications and professional papers, including teaching
material for the World Bank Institute, Harvard (Graduate) Design School, George Mason
University (Virginia) and elsewhere. These include slideshow and narrative presentations on cost
recovery and/or subsidy, within the framework of financial analysis, for: water supply, urban
transport, electricity and district heating systems. He has prepared similar papers and
presentations on accounting and financial reporting for other services, including preventive and
curative health, welfare, education, water supply and sanitation. He has, also, for many years,
been a senior teaching affiliate of the Institute for Public Private Partnerships.
During work for Harvard University, he developed, in Romania, a computerized “Strategic
Financial Planning Model.” This is of general application to public services, shows the
potential financial impacts of development upon budgets and financial results of participating
local government and community units. It incorporates options for capital funding, from grants
and loans, together with operation and maintenance expenditures. All results are presented in
constant, current and deflated current values. In 2004-05, Mr. Jones was a member of the
Harvard Graduate Design School team that prepared the Municipal Finance component of the
UN-Habitat Global Report 2005: “Financing Shelter and Urban Development”.
Mr. Jones began his career in English local government, where he was concerned with financial
management of many services, including those for health and education; these involved the
management of general and specific grant-funding. Based on his experience, he wrote “English
Local Government and its Financing.” It explains the evolution of local government, from that
provided by feudal lords and churches, to the present system of “controlled autonomy,” of
elected local governments. These now operate alongside many and varied governmental and
non-governmental entities, appointed from among the “great and the good” of English society.
Another recent activity, prepared for the Russian Urban Economics Institute in Moscow, under a
World Bank project, has been: “The Russian Federation – Expenditure and Public Sector
Restructuring: Use of Performance Budgeting.” He has worked with Russians since the end of
the Soviet Union, in 1991.
In the nineties, Mr. Jones, then a visiting lecturer at George Mason University, testified before
the District of Columbia Committee of the United States House of Representatives, about
financial management of Washington D.C. He has also advised the Parliament of Georgia, in the
former Soviet Union, on local government audit law. [In the eighties, in a private conversation,
at No.10, Downing Street, London, he warned (former World Bank colleague), Sir Alan
Walters, Chief Economist to (then) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, not abolish property
taxes, in favor of a poll tax! The rest is history!]