Fernando R. Fernholz
Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Sanford School of Public Policy

Fernando R. Fernholz is Director of the Program on Project Appraisal and Risk Management (PARM) at DCID and is a Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he teaches Economic Development, Policies for Development and Public Finance Courses. He has been faculty of the PARM program since 1985. He has lectured on public debt, finance, balance of payments, macroeconomic issues in courses and workshops in various countries in different regions and agencies like the World Bank. He was a Development Associate working with the Public Finance Group of HIID and was resident advisor in different countries in Asia and Africa. He has done short-term advisory work in countries such as Russia, India, Panama, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, Namibia, and Mozambique. He recently co-authored two studies: expansionary public investment impacts during the financial crisis. He co-authored 2 studies on the economic opportunity cost of capital for Mexico in 2014 and 2017. He also evaluated the economic and financial feasibility of the New International Airport in Sierra Leone in 2018. He was principal investigator for a Comparative Cost Efficiency Analysis of USAID Food for Peace Programs and a 2 year study of cost effectiveness of nutrition interventions in Mozambique. He led a study with recommendations for methodologies for public investment in relation to climate change impacts, with the World Bak from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Fernholz headed his own consulting, construction and data processing companies for many years in Bolivia. His education includes a Master of Civil Engineering from the RWTH Aachen in Germany, Master of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University.

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  • Box 90237, Durham, NC 27708-0237
  • Room 276 Rubenstein Hall, Durham, NC 27708

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