1. Chreod
BIODATA
1. PROPOSED POSITION: Metropolitan Development Specialist
2. NAME OF FIRM: Chreod Ltd.
3. NAME: Edward Leman
4. DATE OF BIRTH: 6 August 1954
NATIONALITY: Canadian
5. EDUCATION: B. Arch., Carleton University, 1983
6. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL World Society for Ekistics, Athens (Member, Executive Council
SOCIETIES: 1995-98)
7. OTHER TRAINING: undergraduate courses in Geography, Economics and Sociology,
and graduate courses (2) in Architecture; University of Toronto;
1972-1974
8. COUNTRIES OF WORK China: Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Gansu, Henan, Nei Mongol,
EXPERIENCE: Hunan, Guangxi, Hebei, Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang,
Anhui, Yunnan, Tianjin, Beijing, Hongkong
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Tanzania,
USA, Canada
9. LANGUAGES: English: fluent
10. EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
FROM: 1985 TO: present
Employer Chreod Ltd.
Position Held and Description of President, Director
Activities
Overall management of the firm; responsible for launching (1988)
and managing Asian activities of the firm; Chief Representative,
China representative office in Shanghai; consulting work has
focused on urban and regional development, public finance,
infrastructure investment planning, disaster risk management, and
climate change adaptation in Asia; 10 person-years of fieldwork in
over 40 cities in Asia since 1988.
FROM: 1984 TO: 1985
Employer Leman Group Inc., Consultants on Human Settlements,
Toronto
Position Held and Description of Vice President
Activities
responsible for managing international projects in Tanzania and
Colombia
FROM: 1980 TO: 1984
Employer Descon International Ltd. (management consultants), Ottawa
Position Held and Description of Vice President (Asia)
Activities
responsible for managing $1 million annual budget in marketing and
R+D related to low cost building technologies; established and
managed firm’s interests in joint ventures in Malaysia and
Hongkong
FROM: 1978 TO: 1980
Employer ARA Consultants Ltd. (management consultants), Ottawa
Position Held and Description of Project Manager
Activities
managed feasibility studies, site selection studies, and facility
programs for major capital projects in National Capital Region
11. DETAILED TASKS ASSIGNED: 12. PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
ASIA: Rapid Assessment of City Carbon Emissions; (2011-);
Asian Development Bank
The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center has been
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2. commissioned by ADB to develop a methodology for assessing
cities’ energy and CO2 emissions and to model alternative
development scenarios based on reduced emissions arising from
changes to transport and more energy-efficient forms of
metropolitan growth. Mr. Leman has been retained as Senior Urban
Planner to model land use, density, and intensity scenarios for the
three pilot cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Dalian, and Colombo.
ASIA: Multi-hazard City Risk Index (2010-); World Bank
Team Leader and Infrastructure Specialist.
Project consists of developing and testing a multi-hazard risk index
at the city scale representing risks of exposure from natural hazards
(geophysical, climatological, hydrological) and long-term risks from
climate change, and city-wide vulnerabilities. The index is being
developed by a large, multi-disciplinary team from Chreod,
SOGREAH Consultants, York University, University of Colorado,
and the University of Wisconsin. It is being tested on three pilot
cities: Bangkok, Manila, and Ningbo. Mr. Leman is the team leader
with specialist inputs on calculation of metropolitan elements at risk
(people, buildings, infrastructure) and projections (GIS-based) of
metropolitan development patterns to 2030.
CHINA: Chonqging Provincial Development Strategy (2010-);
Asian Development Bank
Team Co-Leader and Urbanization Specialist.
ADB has retained Chreod, in association with the Shanghai
Development Research Center, to advise the Chongqing
government on its medium- and long-term development strategy.
Chongqing has been selected by State Council as a pilot city to test
reforms in urban-rural integration, environmental sustainability, the
provision of public housing, and metropolitan infrastructure,
especially transport. Mr. Leman is co-leader of the 14-person team,
and is providing international inputs on best practices in
metropolitan development planning and management.
CHINA: GHG Emissions in Three Chinese Cities
Joint Research Project with Sustainable Infrastructure Group,
University of Toronto; World Bank
Mr. Leman led Chreod’s cooperation with a team from the University
of Toronto, led by Prof. Chris Kennedy, in calculating GHG
emissions in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin as part of global
research on emissions from 40 cities conducted for the World Bank.
Emissions were calculated from ENERGY: a) Stationary
Combustion (Electricity, Steam (Heating Supply), Heating &
Industrial, Agriculture, Industry, Construction, Transportation,
Telecommunications, Postal, Wholesale, Retail, and Catering
Service, Residential consumption, Other; b) Mobile Combustion
(Road Transportation (all gasoline & diesel), Aviation, Marine;
INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES: Mineral Industry (Cement), Metal
Industry (Steel); and WASTE: Landfill, Compost, Incineration.
CHINA: Territorial Review of Guangdong Province (2008-2009);
OECD (Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division)
Regional Competitiveness Expert.
Building on its work in over 20 cities and regions in OECD member
countries, OECD has been commissioned by the government of
Guangdong Province to conduct the agency’s first Territorial Review
in China. Mr. Leman was retained by OECD to lead Chreod’s team
in conducting analysis of Guangdong’s regional and global
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3. competitiveness, with a focus on the Pearl River Delta Region, and
to prepare recommendations on strategies and policies to improve
human capital, ICT, R+D infrastructure, market regulation,
innovation policy, infrastructure and logistics, regional
governance to support effective, multijurisdictional implementation
and responsiveness to climate changes.
CHINA: Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Project (2008);
World Bank (3 PMs)
Urban Development and Economics Specialist. Mr. Leman
drafted the Bank’s Policy Note to State Council on Urban
Development Implications of the Wenchuan Earthquake, one of nine
Notes prepared by the Bank in the first month after the disaster. He
also led Chreod’s team in preparing an assessment of Pre-disaster
Conditions in the Impact Area, and was Urban Development and
Economics Specialist on the Bank team reviewing preparation of a
proposed $710 million Wenchuan Emergency Recovery Loan.
CHINA: Shanghai Metropolitan Trends to 2030 (2008); World
Bank (2 PMs)
Team Leader and Urban Development Specialist. Mr. Leman led
Chreod’s team in preparing population and metropolitan growth
projections for Shanghai to 2030, in five-year increments. These
projections formed the basis for the Bank’s review of proposed
investments in the Shanghai Urban Environment Adaptable
Program Loan (3).
CHINA: Shanghai Development Strategy in Regional Context
(2007-2009); GTZ (4 PMs)
Co-Team Leader and Urban Development Specialist. Mr. Leman
led Chreod’s team in a joint assignment with the Shanghai Academy
of Social Sciences in assessing strategic options for the
development of Shanghai within the regional context of the Yangtze
Delta. Strategic options were explored for Shanghai as a global
financial, trade, high value-added manufacturing, and business
services center. Particular emphasis was placed on
recommendations, based on international best practices, to
strengthen existing inter-governmental institutions to improve
regional coordination in strategic planning, service delivery,
regulation, environmental management, and adaptation to climate
changes among the 16 cities in the Yangtze Delta Region.
CHINA: Urban Trends and Policy in China (2007-2008); OECD (2
PMs)
Team Leader and Author. Mr. Leman wrote a background report
for OECD’s Urban Development Programme on urbanization trends,
policy shifts and impacts, governance and management practices,
and future urban prospects for China. The report was published by
OECD in 2009.
CHINA: Sustainable Regional Development Programme (2008);
GTZ (1 PM)
Regional Development Specialist. Mr. Leman was Regional
Development Specialist on a GTZ Expert Mission to design a multi-
million Euro regional development programme in China in
association with the State Council’s Leading Group on Economics
and Finance.
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4. CHINA: Rural Land Management Feasibility Study (2007-2008);
ESRI Canada Ltd. (4 PMs)
Project Co-Director and Institutional Specialist. Mr. Leman co-
directed this Project for ESRI Canada and the State Council
Leading Group Office on Rural Development. The principal goal of
the project was to design a GIS-based information infrastructure to
support land registration in China’s rural areas; a pilot project was
designed and implemented in rural Anhui Province.
CHINA: Metropolitan Management Training (2007); Rotman
School of Management, University of Toronto (.5 PM)
Metropolitan Management Lecturer. Mr. Leman was invited to
design and deliver two half-day training sessions on metropolitan-
level management to local government leaders from Wuhan and
Changchun in China, as part of the Rotman School’s Executive
Training Program in China.
CHINA: Urban Innovation Programme Design (2007); GTZ (2
PMs)
Mr. Leman led Chreod’s team in analyzing and ranking China’s 661
cities in terms of their potential for participation in a new 5-year
urban innovation programme being planned by Germany’s GTZ in
China.
CHINA: Metropolitan Growth Management (2007); World Bank
(2 PMs)
Team Leader and Urban Development Specialist. Mr. Leman led
the team conducting an assessment of urban land use and transport
trends in the Yangtze Delta Region and Shanghai as part of a
Sector Study by the World Bank. The assignment involved
assessing the economic growth dynamics of all cities in the YDR,
detailed land use change analysis of Shanghai using satellite
imagery, advanced GIS-based spatial analysis and modeling, and a
comprehensive analysis of institutional mechanisms for
implementing improved integration of land use and transport
planning.
CHINA: Gansu Cultural Heritage and Infrastructure Project
(2006-07); World Bank, CIDA INC (4 PMs)
Team Leader and Institutional Specialist. Mr. Leman led the
Chreod team that conducted preparation for the Gansu Provincial
Government of a $40 mn Bank loan to support investments in
infrastructure and cultural heritage in 10 towns/sites across the
Province, and to support the World Bank Appraisal Mission through
the development of a database on over 300 individual capital
investments in the Project, each of which were located and mapped
on high-resolution satellite imagery to assist in Supervision.
CHINA: Metropolitan Infrastructure Management (2006); World
Bank; 2 PMs)
Team Leader and Urban Management Specialist. Mr. Leman led
the Chreod team that conducted detailed case studies of the
processes and institutional mechanisms applied in the planning,
development, and operation of metropolitan-level infrastructure in
Chongqing and Tianjin. In addition to extensive fieldwork and
stakeholder consultations in both urban and suburban areas,
Chreod managed a national-level workshop in Beijing of central and
municipal government officials to review case study findings and
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5. policy recommendations. Extensive analysis of international best
practices was conducted, focusing on Seoul and Vancouver.
CHINA: PRC Case Study for Special Evaluation Study of ADB’s
Urban Sector Strategy (2005); Asian Development Bank (OED);
(2 PMs)
Team Leader and Urban Development Specialist. Mr. Leman
was retained to lead a Case Study on ADB’s Urban Sector
operations in PRC since their commencement in the late 1980s.
This work included field reviews of completed and ongoing ADB-
financed urban projects in Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin, Hebei, and
Wuhan. Mr. Leman also conducted extensive interviews with PIUs,
MOF, PRCM personnel, and headquarters staff in Manila. The
Case Study assessed the sectoral and locational scope of ADB
operations, and the extent and scope of institutional strengthening
and reform through advisory and PPTAs. Pipelines projects and
TAs were also assessed. A major focus of the case study was the
extent to which PRC operations reflected Country and ADB
strategies and policies (LTSF, MTSF, Sector Strategy, Water Policy,
PRPA, CSPU). It also included a review of the potential
applications of a range of financing and operational innovations
emerging from RSDD’s IEI, and how the urban sector could be
incorporated into ADB/PRC discussions on a new MIC/OCR.
CHINA: Hebei Provincial Development Strategy (2003-2004);
Asian Development Bank, Hebei Provincial Government (5
PMs)
Team Leader and Urbanization Specialist. Chreod, in
association with the Shanghai Development Research Center, was
retained by ADB (TA No. 3970-PRC) to prepare a Provincial
Development Strategy for Hebei, the province surrounding Beijing
and Tianjin, and which has lagged significantly in economic
development behind other coastal provinces. The TA included
preparation of nine sector studies in core themes of interest to the
Hebei Provincial Government, including urbanization. Each sector
study was prepared by a domestic specialist from Shanghai DRC,
with inputs from foreign sector specialists. Mr. Leman was Team
Leader on the TA and the foreign Urbanization Specialist assisting
the domestic specialist in the urbanization sector study. The
objective was to develop a realistic approach to promoting
urbanization in selected, strategic towns across the province, and in
cities of varying sizes. Mr. Leman was also responsible for working
with the domestic Co-Team Leader to prepare the overall provincial
development strategy that integrates findings from the sector
studies. This TA was selected by ADB-PRCM and MOF as one of
the four most successful TAs by ADB since 2001.
CHINA: Establishment of Pooled Financing Intermediary for
Local Government Investment in Urban Infrastructure,
Shanghai (2003-September 2004)
Shanghai Municipal Government (CIDA INC) (5 PMs)
Team Leader and Institutional Specialist. At the request of the
World Bank, Chreod Ltd. was retained by the Shanghai Municipal
Government to conduct the preparation of a Municipal Development
Fund for suburban towns and districts of Shanghai municipality as
part of the second tranche of the World Bank’s US$ 700 million
Adaptable Program Loan on urban environmental improvements in
Shanghai. The investment facility is a US$30 million fund for long-
term debt financing to towns and suburban district governments in
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6. Shanghai municipality for investment in water supply, wastewater
management, and solid waste management. Mr. Leman was Team
Leader and institutional specialist on this assignment. Aside from
overall management of the 12-person team, he was responsible for
maintaining client and World Bank liaison, preparation of the risk
management strategy for the fund, organizational design of the
investment vehicle, and design of the human resources
development program for town and district governments.
CHINA: Public Infrastructure Investment Policy (2000 - 2002)
Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Finance (8 PMs)
As Team Leader and Public Finance Specialist for ADB/MOF TA
3253 – PRC: Strengthening Public Infrastructure Investment Policy,
responsible for coordinating work of three foreign and six domestic
team members in a 14-month long assignment to assist the Ministry
of Finance in: 1) rationalizing the allocation of responsibilities for
provision and financing of infrastructure between levels of
government, and between the government and non-government
sectors, particularly at local levels; 2) improving the investment
planning process to better interpret signals of market demand for
infrastructure services at all scales, with a focus on municipalities;
3) improving assessments of institutional and financial capacities of
project proponents in making investment decisions; 4) rationalizing
and supplementing revenue streams to finance public infrastructure
(both capital investment and operations and maintenance
expenditures) through transparent taxation and beneficiary charges;
5) broadening access of governments and non-government
providers of infrastructure to capital markets – particularly domestic
markets to tap into China’s high personal savings rates – through
issuance of long-term securities matching the useful life cycles of
infrastructure; and 6) improving efficiency, accuracy and
accountability in budgeting, approval, expenditure management and
post-evaluation in the process of public investment.
CHINA: Design of Pearl River Delta Management Decision
Support System
Guangdong Construction Commission (4 PMs)
Co- Team Leader; Regional Development Specialist
The Guangdong Provincial Government completely updated its
Pearl River Delta Development Strategy in September 2004.
Chreod was part of a Canadian consortium (with ESRI Canada
Ltd.) retained by Guangdong to design and test a GIS-based
Decision Support System (DSS) that will enable the provincial
government to monitor urban growth trends, assess compliance of
municipal and sub-municipal development plans, and better egulate
land uses that pollute coastal waters in the South China Sea. Mr.
Leman was Co- Team Leader and provided technical inputs on GIS-
based regional development modeling.
CHINA: City-Region Development Strategies (II) (2002- June
2004)
World Bank (EASUR) and The Cities Alliance (5 PMs)
Team Leader/Urban and Regional Planning Specialist. Chreod
was retained by the World Bank to work with the municipal
governments of Chengdu, Lanzhou, Erdos, Zhengzhou, and
Xinxiang (Henan Province) to prepare long-term regional
development strategies. The focus of this assignment was to
extend the planning and development efforts of core cities to
outlying satellite cities and towns within metropolitan functional
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7. regions to improve their integration into regional economies. Mr.
Leman managed a team of 8 international and 5 domestic
consultants, for a total of 37 person-months of work. He was
responsible for maintaining liaison with all five municipal
governments and with NDRC, Ministry of Construction, and Ministry
of Finance, and for managing an extensive stakeholder consultation
process in each city. His technical inputs focused on identification
of metropolitan functional regions and identification of international
best practice in metropolitan/regional development planning and
management.
CHINA: Shanghai Urban Environment Adaptable Program Loan
(2001-2002);
World Bank (EASUR); (2 PMs)
Team Leader
This assignment was conducted as part of preparation of the
Shanghai APL, and consisted of: 1) reviewing metropolitan
development trends over the last decade, including in suburban
portions of the municipality; 2) identifying with municipal and
suburban district governments specific environmental infrastructure
investments that could be included in the APL based on demands
caused by continued metropolitan development to 2010; 3)
identifying policy reforms in regional environmental management
and regional service delivery to be included as IST or triggers in the
APL; and 4) preliminary design of a revolving District Financing
Vehicle (modeled on MDFs) to support investment in environmental
infrastructure by suburban district governments in Shanghai. Mr.
Leman led the 4-person team for this assignment, and assisted the
Shanghai Development Planning Commission in preparing for Pre-
Appraisal by the Bank.
CHINA: City Development Strategies for Changsha and
Guiyang (2000 - 2001)
World Bank and The Cities Alliance (3 PMs)
Institutional Analyst and Urban Planner on assignment to assist
municipal governments in Changsha (Hunan Province) and Guiyang
(Guizhou Province) prepare medium and long-term development
strategies for their metropolitan regions. These strategies
addressed two themes: 1) linking of infrastructure provision to
economic development initiatives; and 2) identifying and designing
organizational and financing mechanisms through which delivery of
urban services can be sustained. Mr. Leman was responsible for
analysis of regional and metropolitan development trends in both
cities, and preparation of regional development strategies that
incorporated the integration of selected, strategic towns. His work
also included analysis of municipal service delivery agencies,
including new “infrastructure investment and development
corporations” and their financial and operational relationships with
municipal water and drainage companies.
CHINA: Metropolitan Development Trends in Shanghai (2002-
2003)
World Bank and Shanghai Planning Commission (2.5 PMs)
Team Leader/Urban Development Specialist. Chreod was
retained by the World Bank to assist the Shanghai Planning
Commission in identifying medium and long-term suburbanization
trends in metropolitan Shanghai, and assessing their environmental
and social implications. The purpose of this assignment was to
inform the preparation of the second and third phases of a proposed
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8. 7-year Adaptable Program Loan from the World Bank to Shanghai
on urban environment. Chreod: 1) assessed the extent, speed and
spatial distribution of suburbanization in Shanghai over the past ten
years; 2) assessed the impacts of suburbanization on the availability
and quality of water resources; 3) assessed the social impacts of
suburbanization on agricultural-registered households, migrants,
and the poor in suburban towns and villages; and 4) organized and
convened an international workshop on managing suburban growth.
Mr. Leman managed a 6-person team providing 12 person-months
of consulting input. His technical focus was on identification of
metropolitan growth trends and definition of international best
practices in growth management (including Tokyo, Seoul,
Hongkong, Greater Toronto Area, New York, Paris, and the
Randstad).
CHINA: Pearl River Delta Urban and Regional Development
Trends Study (2001-2003); Guangdong Provincial Government;
World Bank
(8 PMs)
Team Leader and Regional Development Specialist. Study was
part of the preparation for the proposed World Bank Pearl River
Delta Urban Environmental Management Project. The 16-month
assignment consisted of analyzing urban, economic and
environmental trends in 25 cities in the PRD, projecting regional
development trends to 2010 and 2020, and, based on these trends,
recommending specific cities, policy reforms, and sectoral
investments for a possible long-term, Bank-financed program loan.
Mr. Leman’s work focused on the identification of Metropolitan
Regions, functional sub-regions, and projections of urban/regional
structural shifts that are likely to affect demand for public services in
the Delta. This work included extensive research by Mr. Leman on
urban/regional management mechanisms in Hongkong, Tokyo,
Paris, and metropolitan New York. Mr. Leman was responsible for
managing a team of 14 international consultants, and the inputs of
domestic consultants from the Guangdong City Development
Research Center and the Department of Anthropology and
Sociology at Zhongshan University (total of 48 person-months of
consulting input).
CHINA: Review of Municipal Finance (1998-2000)
Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Finance (5.5 PMs)
As Team Leader for ADB/MOF TA 2924-Study of Municipal Public
Finance, responsible for coordinating the three-member foreign
team (individual consultants) and a six-member domestic team of
economists, financial analysts and infrastructure planners. Also
responsible for the team’s liaison with the Ministry of Finance, ADB,
and the municipal governments of Wuxi (Jiangsu), Hefei (Anhui),
and Deyang (Sichuan) where field work was conducted during the
TA.
CHINA: Greater Bohai Urban Water Demand Study (1999-2000);
World Bank (EASRD), Ministry of Water Resources (2 PMs)
Regional Development Specialist. Chreod was commissioned to
assist in the preparation of China’s National Water Resources
Strategy to the Year 2020 by assessing likely urban water demand
based on urban and regional development trends. Building on its
Yangtze Basin research, Chreod assessed urban trends in over 200
cities in the Huang, Huai, and Hai River basins in the Greater Bohai
Economic Region and project domestic and industrial water demand
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9. to 2020. Mr. Leman developed the methodology for the regional
trends analysis, and directed the work of the regional analysis team.
CHINA: Yangtze Basin Urban Infrastructure Investment
Program (1997-2000); State Development Planning
Commission; World Bank (EASUR); (8 PMs)
Team Leader/Urban and Regional Planning Specialist on
assignment to coordinate technical preparation of a possible ten-
year investment program of the World Bank and China in urban
infrastructure projects in cities along the Yangtze Basin. Mr. Leman
was responsible for: 1) reviewing regional and urban economic and
demographic trends in 910 counties and cities in the Basin, and
projecting growth to 2005 and 2010; 2) projecting demand for urban
services in 235 cities; 3) ranking these cities in terms of growth
prospects and environmental infrastructure demands, and
recommending 20 cities for inclusion in the investment program; 4)
analysing municipal fiscal capacities in these cities, including on and
off-budget revenues and expenditures, sustainability of revenues,
and the structure of historical, existing and planned inter-
governmental fiscal transfers; and 5) assembling a core program of
investments for review by the World Bank and central government
agencies. Mr. Leman’s technical inputs focused on regional
development and urban growth analysis. He was responsible for
managing a team of 11 international consultants (24 person-
months) and coordinating liaison with counterparts in the central
and provincial governments.
CHINA: Advisory Services on Structuring Water Supply BOTs
(1996)
Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Water Resources (2 PMs)
The Asian Development Bank and China's Ministry of Water
Resources began in 1996 to explore the potentials of Build-Operate-
Transfer (BOT) as a way of addressing some of the major urban
water supply problems in the country. Mr. Leman was retained by
ADB/MWR as a BOT Expert to research major financial and
institutional issues surrounding BOTs in this sector, to identify and
define the key risks in BOTs in the current regulatory and fiscal
context in China, to identify investment criteria of project financiers
and water supply operators active in China, and to prepare a risk
management framework for BOT in the water supply sector in China
that could facilitate project financing by foreign lenders. His work
included extensive consultations with MWR, Ministry of
Construction, State Development Planning Commission, and the
State Commission for Reform of the Economic System. Mr. Leman
presented a key paper at ADB’s International Seminar on BOT in
the Water Supply Sector in Beijing in 1996 which was subsequently
published as “Key Features of Successful BOT: Structuring and
Managing Risk” in ADB’s book BOT in the Water Supply Sector in
the People’s Republic of China.
Urban/Peri Urban Component of Southwest China Poverty
Reduction Project (1994)
World Bank, State Council Leading Group on Poverty
Reduction (2 PMs)
As Urban Development Advisor: 1) assessed the capacities of
cities and towns in Guangxi Province to accommodate rural-urban
inflows from poverty counties in SW China; 2) recommended
measures to improve these capacities in terms of provision of
housing and basic social services to migrants from poverty counties;
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10. 3) reviewed the technical feasibility of including up to $25 million for
urban infrastructure projects that could support the balanced growth
of rapidly-expanding urban centres in Guangxi; 4) conducted
technical reviews of the urban development/infrastructure projects
being proposed for the IBRD loan component; 5) assessed the
technical and institutional capacities of proponents to implement the
proposed projects; 6) assessed human resources development
implications of the proposed projects, particularly employment
opportunities for rural migrants; 7) identified significant technical and
financial risks with the proposed projects; and 8) recommended
improvements to the projects prior to appraisal.
Liaison with Governments Since 1988, Mr. Leman has directly managed 80 consulting projects in Asia
conducted by Chreod for ADB, World Bank, UNDP, CIDA, provincial and
municipal governments, and some of the largest domestic and foreign
investors in Asia. At the central government level, he has worked directly
on a counterpart basis in China with: Office of the State Council Leading
Group on Economics and Finance; National Development and Reform
Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Water
Resources, and Ministry of Lands and Resources. At the provincial level,
Mr. Leman has worked directly with Provincial Governments (Finance
Bureaux, Planning Commission, Construction Commissions, Planning
Bureaux) of Guangdong, Yunnan, Hebei, Gansu, Hunan, Sichuan,
Chongqing, Shanghai and Tianjin in China, and the Provincial Government
of East Java in Indonesia. At the municipal level, he has managed
consulting assignments requiring field research in over 70 cities in China,
Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Project
teams managed by Mr. Leman have ranged in size to 30 foreign and
domestic consultants in multiple field missions and home office settings.
Selected Towards a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Shanghai and the Yangtze
Delta Region
Presentations/Addresses presentation at 2009 World Bank Urban Research Symposium, July 2009,
Marseilles, France
What are ‘Metropolitan’ Regions, and Why Do They Matter?
presentation at World Bank Staff Workshop on “Perspectives on Metropolitan
Management: A Dialogue between Academics and Practitioners”, May 17, 2007,
Washington DC.
Managing suburban growth in China's metropolitan region: trends and options
presentation at 2007 World Bank Urban Research Symposium, May, 2007,
Washington DC.
Is Shanghai’s Urban Growth Environmentally Sustainable?
presentation to Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, May, 2007,
Washington DC.
Metropolitan Regions: New Challenges for an Urbanizing China
presentation at 2005 World Bank Urban Research Symposium, April 2005, Brasilia
Trends Affecting China’s Environment and Implications for Canada
presentation at the Asia-Pacific Forum, organized by the Asia-Pacific Foundation,,
October 2004, Vancouver
Implications of the Emergence of Metropolitan Regions in China
presentation at The Natural City Conference organized jointly by the University of
Toronto and the World Society for Ekistics. June 2004, Toronto
Beyond Expo: Shanghai’s Metropolitan Regional Challenges
presentation at the International Environmental Conference on World EXPO 2010
organized by Shanghai’s Environmental Protection Bureau and the Shanghai EXPO
Commission. September 2004, Shanghai
Environmental Implications of China’s Urbanization
presentation to China Business Summit, World Economic Forum, April 2001, Beijing
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11. Publications BOOKS and WORKING PAPERS:
Planning for Urban and Township Settlements After the Earthquake.
Knowledge Notes: Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific.
World Bank (2009)
Urban Trends and Policy in China (with Lamia Kamal-Chaoi and Zhang Rufei),
OECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2009/1, (Paris: OECD, 2009)
Strengthening Public Infrastructure Investment Policy in China (with Derek
Ireland and Hew McConnell; in English), (Beijing: China Financial and
Economic Publishing House, 2004)
Managing Urban Change: Strategic Options for Municipal Governance and
Finance in China (with Zhang Rufei; in Chinese), (Beijing: China Financial and
Economic Publishing House, 2003)
ARTICLES:
“Metropolitan Regions: New Challenges for an urbanizing China”, Ekistics: The
Problems and Science of Human Settlements, Volume 71, No. 429,
November/December 2004 (Athens: Athens Center of Ekistics)
"Can the Pearl River Delta Region Still Compete?", The China Business Review,
May/June 2003. (Washington DC: US-China Business Council)
"Can Shanghai Compete as a Global City?", The China Business Review,
Sept/Oct 2002. (Washington DC: US-China Business Council)
“The Yangtze Dragon?”, China Trade Report, Volume 36, June 1998 (Hongkong:
Far Eastern Economic Review)
“Key Features of Successful BOT: Structuring and Managing Risk”, in BOT in
the Water Supply Sector in the People’s Republic of China (Manila: Asian
Development Bank, 1996)
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