From 1988 - 1991, Bob was Managing Director (CEO) of Chloride Eastern Industries, Ltd. (CEIL), a Singapore public company with businesses in a number of Asian emerging markets. As a former CEO of a multi-national company Bob brings a unique hands-on" perspective to economic growth, trade and privatization issues.

Having advised the Governor of Washington State on trade and international economic development issues from 1994-1997, Bob understands the importance of encouraging the free movement of goods and capital as engines of economic growth. Bob is currently advising the Bulgarian government on reform of its investment laws in order to promote increased in-bound foreign investment and trade, in addition to his work with CSR developing a commercial mediation program in Croatia.

SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• Bulgaria
  CSR trained and certified 70 mediators to resolve cases referred by the commercial courts and by the Bulgaria Chamber of Commerce. One of CSR’s great successes was a court-referred training provided to commercial court judges in Stara Zagora and Plovdiv who became extraordinarily proficient in selecting commercial cases from their crowded dockets and referring those cases to the Stara Zagora Chamber of Commerce, during “settlement week” and thereafter, where they were successfully mediated by CSR trained mediators. In addition, CSR produced and directed a Bulgarian language training video based on a CSR role play.


• Bulgaria
  Foreign Direct Investment: CSR was the principal advisor to the Bulgarian Government on enactment of a new foreign investment law; reorganization of Foreign Investment Agency and creation of a targeted sector FDI strategy (MSI 2004-2005)e cases that had been clogging dockets for a decade or so.


• Nepal
  CSR designed and implemented a court connected appellate mediation program for the Nepal Supreme Court and a commercial mediation initiative for the Federated Nepali Chamber of Commerce; and trained and certified 90 mediators to hear cases referred by the appellate courts, as well as the Chamber. To our knowledge, CSR’s Nepal program is the first appellate mediation program launched in a developing country. Despite the political troubles that Nepal was experiencing, CSR mediators participated in an extremely successful settlement week that disposed of a substantial backlog of cases, including some cases that had been clogging dockets for a decade or so..


• Egypt
  CSR designed and implemented a USAID funded commercial mediation centre within the Ministry of Investment in Egypt (General Authority for Free Trade Zones and Investment—known as GAFI) to hear, inter alia, shareholder complaints against management and majority shareholders in Egyptian companies, along with other corporate governance issues. In particular, the new GAFI mediation centre will have jurisdiction over complaints by foreign investor shareholders against company management. To staff the GAFI Centre, CSR trained (basic, advanced, practicum) and certified 50 Egyptian mediators and has, in addition, provided administrative and marketing training for centre staff. To our knowledge, this is one of the first corporate governance mediation programs launched outside the US and Western Europe. CSR provided ToT (“Training of Trainers”) training to a select group of mediators to ensure sustainability, and participants are currently mediating cases and providing training for Egyptian students..

• Croatia
  Carr Swanson & Randolph recently was awarded a contract under USAID's Croatia Commercial Law Reform Project to assist with the implementation of ADR in Commercial courts and the business sector. Carr Swanson & Randolph is working under contract with Booz Allen Hamilton to develop several pilot ADR program(s) for both private provider and court annexed commercial litigation dispute resolution.
  
  Carr Swanson & Randolph also provided training in 2002 to Croatian labor management representatives for the purposes of establishing a more facilitative culture for collective bargaining, conflict resolution and cooperative problem solving (3 programs for USAID under Management Systems International and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity) (2/02-7/02).
  
  In addition, Carr Swanson & Randolph partners have extensive prior experience in international dispute systems design, ADR training, facilitation and all aspects of conflict prevention/resolution.


• Kashmir
  Training in conflict resolution for Azad Kashmiri parliamentarians and civil society leaders (in the United States (3/01, 7/00 and 2/00).


• Guatemala
  Training of senior government officials and of civil society leaders from Columbia, Guatemala and other Latin American countries in public dialogue and consensus building processes (US Institute of Peace program) (9/00).


• Argentina
  Extensive training for senior government mediators and assistance in creating mediation initiatives (9-10/99).


• Dominican Republic
  Training in mediation and conflict resolution to senior diplomats and leaders of civil society in member states of the Organization of American States with US Institute of Peace Training staff (6/99).


• Sweden
  Training of UN Peacekeeping forces (12/98).


• Panama
  Facilitation, mediation training and systems design assistance to the government of Panama in the creation of an independent Panamanian mediation service (1996-1998).


• Greece
  Training for senior diplomats from Balkan countries in mediation and conflict resolution (9/97and 12/97, both with US Institute of Peace Training staff).


• Cyprus
  Mediation training for bi-communal representatives (10/97).


• Bosnia
  Facilitation of privatization issues (10/98), facilitation of rail industry seminar/training (5/97), facilitation of initiatives on privatization in the power sector (4/97).


• India
  Negotiations training for the senior staff of the Office of Information and International Relations, Tibetan Government-in-exile (10/96).


• Japan and Korea
  Mediation training to joint American, Japanese and Korean civilian and military personnel (1994).i>