Peter Middlebrook

Dr. Peter J. Middlebrook (born in Lincoln, U.K., 15 November, 1965) is a leading English political economist/Political Scientist specialising in the reconstruction and development of Transition and post-conflict economies. He is best known for his work as an economic advisor to governments in Africa, Central and South Asia, as well as OECD countries. He specialises in the political economy of public and private investment in Central Asia, South Asia and the Horn of Africa with a particular focus on investment finance, Public-Private Partnership, the privatisation and transformation of national economies and productive infrastructure, Energy utilities and other public goods. He originated the concept and framework for right-financing as a practical tool to guide both private and public investment (see External Links). Middlebrook has a blog on [http://www.petermiddlebrook.com Current Affairs and Global Events]

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Biography

Middlebrook has published widely on the challenges of economic development and post conflict reconstruction, with much of his work focusing on public and private investment, restructuring of government institutions, security sector governance, political analysis and the political economy of economic growth and poverty reduction. He is the Joint managing director of [http://www.middlebrook-miller.com Middlebrook & Miller] , a private international consultancy and think tank specialising in analytical advisory services to Government, Investment Banks and International Financial Institutions. He worked for the World Bank in Afghanistan and India as an economist and as a Senior Advisor to the Government of Afghanistan on the [http://www.ands.gov.af/admin/ands/ands_docs/upload/UploadFolder/I-ANDS%20Volume%20One%20-%20Final%20English.pdf Afghan National Development Strategy] and Afghanistan Compact where he worked as an advisor to the President's Office. In his time at the World Bank he pioneered the Bank's work on public finance management in the area of national security and subsequently introduced the concept of right-financing of public finances for national security in support of Fiscal Sustainability. At its core, the concept of right-financing, as applied to national and human security, is fundamentally about determining security as a sustainable public good, with relevance to good governance and oversight and accountability and prioritization mechanisms and processes that support increasingly higher quality security services over time.

He was the overall coordinator and working group team leader of more than 100 international experts on the successful [http://www.ands.gov.af/admin/ands/documents/upload/UploadFolder/%5CSECURING%20AFGHANISTANS%20FUTURE%20PRINT%20VERSION%20very%20final.pdf#search=%22securing%20afghanistan's%20future%22 Securing Afghanistan's Future] exercise, a seven-year US$27.5 billion public investment program presented to an international conference in Berlin attended by 65 finance and foreign ministers. Described as the most comprehensive program ever prepared and presented by a poor country to the international community, Dr. Middlebrook co-chaired the national committee with Dr. Ashraf Ghani, nominee for United Nations Secretary-Generaland then Afghan Minister of Finance to President Hamid Karzai. The concept of a double-compact, between the donors and the government of Afghanistan on the one hand and between the government and people of Afghanistan on the other, underpinned the program of investment to which international donors pledged a total of US$8.2 billion for the first three years of this public investment program.

Dr. Middlebrook has published many foreign policy articles on the challenges of Economic Development and reconstruction of States and more recently on national security and security sector transformation. In 2006 he was invited by the US Council of Foreign Relationsto make a presentation on the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan and has worked extensively on National Security issues advising the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Furthermore, Dr. Middlebrook has led loan negotiation exercises with Government and the private sector, worked on regional trade agreements and trade facilitation, drafted legal frameworks for private sector development and foreign direct investment, as well as laws to restructure commercial banking and the administrative structures of state to support the emergence of a growth-enabling environment. Dr. Middlebrook has also published Online Books on hunger and poverty reduction and is currently the editor of a number of journals. His work and exploration have taken him to over 100 countries.

Dr. Middlebrook continues to provide policy advisory services to the Governments of the United Kingdom, the European Union, World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank,Netherlands Government, and the governments of Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan,Malawi, Nepal Nigeria and Sierra Leone among others.

He is related to Martin Middlebrook the famous British Military Historian, and was one of the three founders of the Great Ethiopia Run with world record holder and Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie.

Education

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree First Class (Hons) from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle on Environmental Management, UK and a PhD from the University of Durham under the Professorship of the renowned Geopolitical specialist Ewan Anderson, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies UK on Public Policy in Ethiopia and India in relation to growth economics.

Music

Middlebrook is also British born singer and songwriter [http://www.jamie-brooke.com Jamie Brooke] . His debut album [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=262583261&s=143441 Violet Symphony] was written in Afghanistan, recorded in India and mastered in New York. Violet Symphony is marketed by [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=262583261&s=143441 I-Tunes] , [http://www.emusic.com/album/Jamie-Brooke-Violet-Symphony-MP3-Download/11086041.html emusic] and [http://www.amazon.com/s?rs=&keywords=jamie%20brooke&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ajamie%20brooke%2Ci%3Adigital-music Amazon]

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External links

* [http://www.af/resources/mof/recosting/SECURING%20AFGHNAISTANS%20FUTURE.pdf Securing Afghanistan's Future]
* [http://www.middlebrook-miller.com Middlebrook & Miller]
* [http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2005/wb-eth-28feb.pdf Fighting Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia]
* [http://www.fpif.org Peter J. Middlebrook articles at FPIF]
* [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC30Ag02.html Taming the Torrid Zone]
* [http://siteresources.worldbank.org/AFGHANISTANEXTN/Resources/305984-1137783774207/AfgPfmVol5.pdf Public Finances and Security]
* [http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol05/v5n1a03.htm Redefining the Role of Environmental NGOs in Africa]
* [http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0601lifesupport.pdf Living on a Life Support Machine]
* [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/25/38406485.pdf OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform]
* [http://www.middlebrook-miller.com/assets/All%20Along%20the%20Watch%20Tower%20Oct%2020%202006.pdf All Along the Watch Tower]
* [http://www.cic.nyu.edu/peacebuilding/docs/middlebrookpeakepaper.pdf Right-financing Security Sector Reform]
* [http://siteresources.worldbank.org/AFGHANISTANEXTN/Resources/305984-1137783774207/AfgPfmVol5.pdf Public Finances and Security]
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/k83g75u977142l76/ Right-financing the Future]