Larry Cooley is founder and president of Management Systems International (MSI), an international development consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of public management, citizen participation, and entrepreneurship development. He has served as Advisor to Cabinet and sub-cabinet level officials in the U.S. Departments of State, Interior, Agriculture, Health and Human Services and the Small Business Administration; as a frequent consultant at the United Nations and the World Bank; and as advisor to senior officials in eight foreign countries. Mr. Cooley served for many years as Chair person of the Development Management Network of the American Society of Public Administration and has lectured on development topics at George Washington University, American University, and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. Since 1991, he has directed MSI’s efforts to improve the management of economic and social policy change in developing countries and Eastern Europe, and he oversees the firm’s efforts to strengthen results-based management in the United States and abroad. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho from 1971-1974. He is a graduate of Colgate University and holds advanced degrees from Columbia University, Princeton University, and Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom.