Background & experience
Ian D. Bowen is a director at ESI. He is experienced in leading a wide variety of projects including economic impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, real estate market analysis, and policy impact analysis. Ian has contributed extensively to many of the firm’s practice areas, notably in litigation support and transportation and infrastructure work.
Ian has worked with a diverse range of clients to address a variety of needs. He assists transportation agencies, municipalities, and other entities to help secure funding for transportation infrastructure. He also has years of experience conducting econometric analysis for expert testimony in litigation matters. In his long tenure, Ian’s other assignments with ESI has involved economic and fiscal impact studies, tax and tax policy analysis, public and affordable housing policy, nonprofit business planning and organization, market and market potential analysis, real estate, project financing, transit-oriented development, international travel and tourism, labor market analysis, and many other subjects. He has directed projects in coordination with various organizations to inform decision making, policy, planning, and public understanding.
Ian joined Econsult Corporation in June 2011 for its Summer Research Assistant Program and has been with Econsult ever since. Prior to joining the firm, Ian was a research assistant to Dr. Maria Olivero and Dr. Yoto V. Yotov through the Drexel University co-op program. While in this position he conducted extensive research on Taylor Rule composition and specification, and explored various topics in globalization and international trade, including the Gravity Equation and other distance-effect models.
