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Arthur Smith

President, Management Analysis, Incorporated
President-Elect, National Council for Public-Private Partnerships

Former Chair, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)’s Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships

Former Chair, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)’s Team of Specialists on Public-Private Partnerships

Arthur Smith has more than 30 years of experience in analyzing and implementing Public-Private Partnerships. He is the immediate past Chairman (and incoming President) of the U.S. National Council for Public-Private Partnerships , and U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)’s Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships and the Team of Specialists on Public-Private Partnerships, where the member countries elected him Chairperson for several periods from May 2012 until November 2021.

Mr. Smith serves as a consultant and lecturer on PPPs for organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNECE, World Bank, Asian Development Bank Institute, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Law Institute and national governments. He is President of the consulting firm Management Analysis, Incorporated (MAI), based in Vienna, VA. He holds an M.S. in Technology Management from the University of Maryland.