Beverly Fleisher, Ph.D.

bevfleisher@gmail.com

301-204-9400

Rockville, MD 2085

Vice President Policy, Government Affairs| Open to new opportunities

- Extensive experience in Presidential-level policy, budget, legislative and economic

analysis
- National award-winning advocate for children and young adults with special needs

Summary of Relevant Experience

Beverly Fleisher, PhD, LLC

2002 - 2016

Advocate and CEO

Private advocate ensuring differently abled children and young adults receive the education and
related services to which they are entitled by law.
Training in special education law; associate member, American Bar Association Section on Disability
Law.
Develop and apply highly effective practice of Guerrilla Advocacy.
Partner with CASA and other programs to provide students from the juvenile justice system and youth
aging out of foster care with compensatory education and job training.
National award-winning advocate and mediator bringing together opposing factions.
Speak on disabilities and related law to disability groups, schools and community organizations.

Executive Office of the President

Office of Science and Technology Policy
Office of Management and Budget

1989 and 1992 - 1995

Senior Economist, Analyst, Wrangler of Chaos

- Economic, budget, policy and legislative analysis in all science, technology, engineering and

mathematic (STEM) fields within the federal and state governments, industry, academia, and
international stakeholders for the Presidents Advisor on Science and Technology in the Office of
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Train and manage technical experts at The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the first
cross-cutting budget data development and analysis in compliance with their project to use the revised
data in allocating the Presidents budget in science and space.
Strategically plan how policy aspirations can be met through tracking legislative and appropriation.
Cost/benefit analysis of large scale research facilities and programs here and abroad.
Research, integrate and convey important information on pressing issues to the Presidents Advisor on
Science and Technology and, as needed, the Vice President, OMB, the Cabinet, and members of
congressional committees.
Coordinate oversight and strengthen relationships between the federal government, the National
Academy of Science, and the Industrial Research Institute.
Collaborative research with the Council of Economic Advisors on a wide range of subjects.
Use mediators non-judgmental stance when negotiating sensitive issues.

National Science Foundation, Office of the Director

1989 - 1992

Special Assistant to the Deputy Director

- Support Deputy Director in his agency, government-wide and international roles, including that of
Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group on Policy Responses.
- Represent Deputy Director as head of numerous intra-governmental projects in including the National
Critical Technology Panel, technology incubator programs and the Manufacturing Initiative.
- Advocate for NSF funding and policy goals with OMB, OSTP and Congress.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/National Science Foundation

Confidential Assistant to Chair of Working Group on Policy Responses

- Synthesize and clarify information for the Chair during international negotiations.
- Maximize opportunities for dialogue among all international stakeholders.
- Edit and shepherd the through World Meteorological Organization the publication of the first report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Studies

1988 - 1989

Assistant Director
- Compile and publish statistics on government funding of research, development, testing and
evaluation.
- Point of contact for queries from media, federal agencies and Congress.
- Present Federal Funding by Budget Function to organizations in including the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and the Industrial Research Institute.

Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

1985 - 1988

Senior Economist
- Work with Ph.D mathematician to continue to refine and test new measures of attitude toward risk.
- Research and respond to high-priority, fast turn-around requests by Department leaders.
- Write Agricultural Risk Management, a text still used in many low and middle income countries.

Caribbean Basin Initiative, Belize

1981 - 1982

Supervisory Extension Agent

- Train 12 local agriculture extension agents.
- Develop agricultural cooperatives to increase exports of products such as honey.

Peace Corps Nepal

1978 - 1980

Drinking Water Supply Engineer

- Survey, design, and preparation materials for portering, and provided logistic support to transport
water supply materials to three remote villages, a two day walk from the nearest dry season road head.

- Live in remote villages for two years training workers and supervising them during construction of the
gravity-flow drinking water supply system.

- Devise and implement a program of traveling water supply engineers to ensure that systems were
maintained and repaired.

Education
Ph.D Agricultural Economics
Production Economics, Policy, Risk Theory

1985

Michigan State University

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Agricultural

Economics Association

B.S Applied Earth Science

1977

Applied Earth Science, Environmental Engineering

Stanford University
Special Education Advocacy Training

2008

150 hours of face-to-face training in education law for established

non-attorney advocates. Three month internship with CASA

Mediator Training

2005

60 hours of training for general and divorce mediation

Awards
STEVIE AWARD for Best New Service by a Woman Entrepreneur
Science and Technology Fellow (Executive Office of the President)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Special recognition as co-writer/editor of the first major report issued by the IPCC
GE Lectureship for the Study of Science and Society for early work on biotechnology in agriculture
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association for
mathematically-based
research on A New Measure of Attitude Toward Risk

Selected Publications
Fleisher, B. Agricultural Risk Management. (A textbook) Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner
Publishers. 1990
Fleisher, B. and Li, F., editors. Climate Change: The IPCC Response Strategies.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, World Meteorological Association, The United
Nation. Geneva: The United Nations. 1991
Fleisher, B. et. al. Aspects of Performance in the Hight Technology Sector. Washington, DC:
Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy. 1993
Fleisher, B. Science and Technology: Biennial Report to Congress. Washington, DC:
Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy. 1991, 1993
Fleisher, B. Who Will Benefit from Agricultural Biotechnology: Analysis of Economic and
Legal Issues. Webber, D., editor, Biotechnology: Assessing Social Impacts and Policy
Implications. New York: Greenwood Press. 1992

International Experience
Lived and worked in 7 countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, Spain, Scotland, Nepal and Belize.
Formerly fluent in Japanese, German, Spanish, Nepali, Hindi, Limbu, Rai, and Wolof. Language reboots
take about one month of immersion.