Alan Steele Bowser  Attorney and Counsellor at Law

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Alan Bowser - Summary of Experience    [Law Offices]

Alan Bowser, a graduate of Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the Georgetown University Law Center, has extensive professional experience as an attorney, economist, and executive speechwriter in the public and private sectors. A former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries in the Department of Commerce, he also was a senior staff member of the World Bank Group, and a Director of the Petroleum Finance Company, Ltd. Currently, he is an attorney in private practice. He also works as a consultant on transportation, environmental and energy issues for public and private sector organizations.

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1995. M.A., A.B.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1978. A.B., Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1974.

Bar Memberships

Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Washington, D.C. State and Federal Courts. U.S. Courts of Appeals: 3rd, 4th, D.C., & Federal Circuits. U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. Tax Court.

Professional Experience

Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 1995-present. General civil practice in the areas of family, administrative, general business, personal injury and international law. Government affairs work includes client representation to U.S. Food & Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Transportation, and U.S. Congress.

Privatization Company International, LLC, 2003 to present, Principal, 

United States Department of Commerce, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries, International Trade Administration, Washington, D.C. February 1999 to January 2001. Member, Senior Executive Service of the United States of America. Managed the Commerce Department's Office of Metals, Materials, and Chemicals, Office of Energy, Infrastructure, and Machinery, and the Office of Automotive Affairs. Principal accomplishments included: U.S. Department of Commerce's Clean Energy Trade Initiative, including trade missions to Brazil, Mexico, India, China, Russia and Central Europe; U.S. China Housing Initiative, and U.S. Housing and Building Materials Trade Mission to China; U.S. Department of Commerce-Federal Transit Administration Memorandum of Cooperation, and U.S. International Transportation Trade Mission to Southeast Asia; U.S. Russia Business Development Committee, Working Groups on Oil & Gas; Agricultural Machinery; Housing, Construction, and Building Materials.

The World Bank Group, Corporate Secretariat, Washington, D.C. 1989 to 1999. Acting Secretary, Audit and Budget Committees; Secretary, Inspection Panel Working Group, of the Board of Executive Directors (IBRD/IDA/IFC/MIGA). Consultant, World Bank Group, 2001 to Present.

The Petroleum Finance Company, Ltd., Washington, D.C., Director, 1986 to 1988.

United States House of Representatives, Office of the Honorable Geo. W. Crockett, Jr. (D-Michigan). Legislative Assistant for Committees on the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs. 1982-1984

United States Treasury; United States Department of Agriculture, International Economist, 1975 to 1980.

Executive Office of the President, United States Presidential Commission on World Hunger Washington, D.C. 1979-1980, International Economist.

Speechwriter, Washington, D.C., 1976 to Present. Assignments completed for U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the President, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, World Bank, U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce and national political campaigns.