--William Stewart has been a private consulting economist to many firms and foreign governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Middle East and Pacific Ocean areas. He served as economic advisor to the Director General of the Tunisian Development Bank; economic and investment advisor to the Secretary General of the Royal Kingdom of Thailand’s Board of Investment; advisor for the Inter-America Development Bank’s constituent borrower, the Bahamas Development Bank and the African Development Bank, (Ivory Coast). His association with the former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands included assignments as economic advisor to the High Commissioner and Deputy Director of Resources & Development. He has also served as an economic advisor to the General Staff, United States Corps of Engineers on the $142 billion Saudi Arabian development plan. Stewart is the author of “The Business Reference and Investment Guide to Northern Mariana Islands;” “Introducing the Northern Mariana Islands - An American Doorstep to Asia;” “Tourism Investment Opportunities in the Northern Mariana Islands,” and more than 350 published essays and “op-ed” pieces on the history, geography, economy and social issues in the NMI for the Saipan Tribune and the Marianas Variety. Many of these articles have been published in English, Japanese and Chinese and have also appeared in Umanidat - A Journal of the Humanities; the Journal of Pacific Societies (Tokyo); and the American Pacific Business Magazine. He has been an occasional lecturer at the Northern Marianas College on contemporary economic issues. Stewart is a graduate of the University of Charleston and the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute where he served as a career foreign service officer as an economic development adviser to foreign governments through the facilities of American Embassies in Africa and Asia. His graduate level study from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (now the Defense University) concerned the “Economics of National Security.” Stewart has online blog Saipanstewart.com.
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