Musharraf R. Cyan, Research Associate
Email: cyan@gsu.edu
Mr. Musharraf R. Cyan, currently a Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate in Economics at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, holds a fifteen-year professional record in the areas of fiscal decentralization, public sector expenditure management and development. Before joining the AYS, he had worked for the Asian Development Bank (2001-2005) in Pakistan, undertaking designing of institutional mechanisms for an intergovernmental fiscal transfer system at the sub-national level and led expert teams in support of evolving sub-national fiscal systems and intergovernmental transfers. From 2000 onward, as a consultant with international agencies (DfID, GTZ, UNDP, UNOPS, SDC, IUCN), he worked on public sector expenditure review, program evaluation and design and implementation of capacity building programs. He has designed, managed and implemented training programs for the public sector at various levels, incorporating the principles and best practices of pedagogy and adrogogy, on budget making, revenue mobilization, intergovernmental transfers and fiscal reform. He has also developed planning manuals, guidebooks and institutional processes as tools for capacity development. He has experience in evaluation of capacity building programs. Mr. Cyan possesses an intimate knowledge of the practice of local financial management from his years of working as a local administrator in five jurisdictions in Pakistan (1990-1997), and later as Chief Economist of a provincial government (1998-2000). He has masters degrees in economics from the University of Punjab and development management from University College, London.
