The Global Center for Public Policy (GCPP) is a global network of public policy professionals who are dedicated to finding solutions to challenges facing economies in transition.

This network is headed by Professor Leroy P. Jones. He is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and holds a PhD from Harvard. His entire professional career has been devoted to policy reform in Developing and Transition Economies. He has undertaken more than one-hundred-and-fifty consulting assignments in more than 40 countries. His field experience includes nine years residence in the Philippines (Peace Corps), Viet-Nam (USAID), Korea (HIID), and Indonesia (as COP of the large USAID DSP multi-Ministry advisory project). He developed and directed the BU Program in Economics and Management of Public Enterprise. He taught similar material at international workshops sponsored by Harvard, Boston University, Boston Institute for Developing Economies, the World Bank, and many other international organizations and governments. He also developed an Applied Master’s Program for Boston University.

He works in the areas of privatization and SOE reform, regulation, industry, pricing, cost-benefit analysis, taxation, public expenditure analysis, development and trade. He has authored or co-authored 5 books and numerous articles in these areas. He specializes in quantitative approaches to public decision-making. He led teams which developed Performance Evaluation systems for SOE sectors in South Korea, Pakistan, India, Venezuela and Nigeria, including system design, main-frame and PC software, implementation, training, extensive manuals and follow-up. For the World Bank, he developed and applied methods for evaluating distributional impact of privatization and applied to Chile, Ivory Coast , Malaysia , Mexico and UK . For the Asian Development Bank he developed a computerized method of applying Harbergarian Cost-Benefit Methodology and applied it to evaluating BOOT projects in Pakistan , Malaysia and the Philippines . He also has practical managerial experience, having served as CEO of Boston Institute for Developing Economies from 1987 to 2007.