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DR. KEITH WILLIAM CRANE

        Dr. Crane is Chief Operating Officer and Director of Research at PlanEcon, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based research and consulting firm focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.  In his capacity of Director of Research, he is responsible for PlanEcon's forecasts and consulting and has special responsibility for PlanEcon's East European automotive service.  He has led studies on the East European electric power industries, motor vehicle industries, banking, and steel, among other industries.  Aside from his duties at PlanEcon, Dr. Crane writes extensively on Soviet-East European issues and international economics in policy and academic journals.   His duties as Chief Operating Officer involve meeting operating profit targets, personnel and salary decisions, marketing and negotiations with external partners.

        For the seven years prior to taking his current position at PlanEcon, Dr. Crane was a member of the Economics Department of the RAND Corporation.  While at RAND he led studies on the creditworthiness of Hungary, Poland and Romania, Soviet foreign economic policies, military spending in Eastern Europe, economic integration in the CMEA, and economic reforms in centrally-planned systems, primarily for the Office of the Undersecretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense.   He has also led projects on evaluating U.S. bases in the Philippines, the Mexican economy, and illegal immigration into the United States.

        Dr. Crane received his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University in 1983.  He is a faculty member in the George Mason University public policy program.  He has served as a faculty member of the RAND-UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior and as a Fulbright Professor at the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw, Poland.  He has also served on the Fulbright Selection Committee for Central and Eastern Europe.  Dr. Crane frequently briefs business leaders and senior policy makers in the U.S. and foreign governments on economic and business developments in Central and Eastern Europe.  He has lived for several years in Eastern Europe, is fluent in Hungarian and Polish and has translated a number of books from Hungarian into English.

July 2001

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