Alan S. Bowser

Board Member Alan Bowser, a graduate of Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the
Georgetown University Law Center, has extensive professional
experience as an attorney, economist, and senior executive in the
public and private sectors. A former United States Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Basic Industries in the Department of Commerce, serving
under Secretaries William M. Daley and Norman Mineta, he also was a
senior staff member of the World Bank Group, and a Director of the
Petroleum Finance Company, Ltd. He specializes in transportation,
manufacturing, energy and environmental issues. He served as Chief of
Staff/Confidential Aide to Montgomery County Councilmember-at-Large
Duchy Trachtenberg. Currently, an attorney in private practice, he is
President of the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc., and a member of the
Board of Safe Silver Spring, Inc., the Sligo Creek Golf Association,
Inc., Building Bridges America, Inc., and the Park Hills Civic
Association.