New York, New York, United States
Experienced environmental and infrastructure economist with broad staff & project management experience in areas of infrastructure, transportation, economic analysis & forecasting, sustainability, climate economics, resilience, and environmental economics. Expertise: Environmental sustainability, climate resilience, economic scenario development, regional economic analysis, economic development, economic impact analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, , transportation planning, econometrics, financial feasibility work, valuation studies, and microeconomic analysis. Specialties: Public speaking, economic analysis, benefit-cost analysis, economic impact assessments, asset management, sustainability & climate change resilience analyses, regional macroeconomic analysis and macroeconomic outlook review and commentary. Presentations and lectures on global, national & regional economic outlook, sustainability and transportation issues to various external and internal stakeholders and organizations.
Instruction of graduate course titles "Economics of Sustainability Management" in the Master of Sustainability Management program at the Earth Institute and School of Professional Studies. Lecturing and collaborating on environmental economics analysis in group or individual projects.
Senior Economist in The Conference Board’s Center for Economy, Strategy and Finance. Focus on energy & environment, infrastructure, and urban issues. Link to bio and published reports: https://www.conference-board.org/bio/alexander-heil
Instruction of graduate courses in “Public Economics” and "Climate Economics", and undergraduate courses titled “Economics of Public Policy”
Teaching graduate courses in the School of International and Public Affairs [SIPA] titled "The Economics of Sustainable Development" and "Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Analysis". Guidance of SIPA student team on cost-benefit analysis focused on technology investments in Malawi. Client for the pro-bono student consulting group was the World Bank.
Provision of strategic leadership to senior executive management on global, national, and regional economic issues. Development of economic research agenda. Creation of a Centralized Economic & Activity Forecasting Function: Macroeconomic modeling/scenario building and econometric forecasting for agency revenue forecasts. Agency managed to create internal expertise to replace tasks and initiative otherwise managed by consultants. Analysis of regional economic conditions, cost benefit analysis, economic impacts of transportation investments, sustainability and climate resilience projects. Recent key project was the completion of a facility shutdown analysis resulting from storm events [attached]. Analysis of resilience projects and climate change initiatives as part of broader cost-benefit assessments. Regular communication of economic outlook to leadership and staff throughout the agency. More than 50 presentations of regional and national economic outlook to various industry and business groups; multiple re-invitations to update prior economic views. Creation of Regional Roundtable event focused on transportation, logistics, and climate change Presentations/Talks given to industry groups and organizations: NAIOP NJ Annual Meeting, Economic Outlook Presentation, January 2019 CAPRE’s New York Commercial Real Estate Forecast: Gloom, Doom or Boom?, November 2018 Newark Regional Business Partnership, Economic Outlook Event 2017 & 2018 CIANJ’s Financial & Business Strategies Forum, December 2017 ACG NJ Monthly Breakfast Meeting - Infrastructure Panel, November 2017 Residential Brokerage Division Owners and Managers Breakfast, June 2017 Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce: 1st Small Business Economic Outlook Luncheon 2015 National Federation of Municipal Analyst, Annual Conference, May 2014 NJCPA Cooperation with Bankers Cocktail Reception - Economic Update - January 2014
Management of CBC's research agenda covering areas from public sector operations and capital spending, infrastructure operations to government policy impacts. Focus on effective and efficient government operations and policy implementation. Development of research in the area of environment, climate resilience and sustainability. Analysis of transportation trends & financial review of Metropolitan Transit Authority. Supervision and guidance of a team of policy analysts and social scientists. Guidance and determination of the organizations research and publications agenda.