Mark is a specialist in concentrated policy reforms and grassroots-up development strategies. He advises entrepreneurial ventures on equity-sharing partnerships for education and neighborhood self-help.
Over the past 30 years, Mark has worked in more than 50 countries on market-based reforms and free economic zone development. His focus has been on pre-investment studies and on business climate reforms and streamlined processes to remove barriers to investment and entrepreneurship. Among the projects he has assisted are Zonamerica (http://Zonamerica.com) in Uruguay, the Montego Bay Free Zone in Jamaica, and dozens of free zones and business and technology parks in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His clients have included the World Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Israel Export Development Corporation, the German Marshall Fund, and NTT of Japan. He has edited or published guidebooks during this period on Enterprise Zones, Foreign-Trade Zones, and Export Processing Zones.
As cofounder and president of Openworld, a nonprofit volunteer and consulting network, Mark specializes in strategies to include residents and community groups as beneficiaries of the rise in real estate values generated by successful free zones. He has designed and overseen “quickstart” arts-related economic revitalization projects for the Artisans Courtyard (http://ArtisansCourtyard.org) and the Arts & Business Connection of Dayton, focusing on land trust endowment funding for the arts-related education, 3D printing, and community beautification projects. He also served as principal investigator for a Sabre Foundation/John Whitehead Foundation-funded study on how philanthropies can catalyze self-funding community land trusts benefiting local residents and scholarship programs through challenge offers of digital donations.
Mark has worked as well on initiatives to spread skills through low-cost methods. He designed peer learning and microscholarship initiatives in economically lagging regions that have spread internet skills to more than 9000 students in Asia. He also co-designed and supervised software development for ‘just in time learning’ projects, including an eLearning authoring tool for MIT’s Center for Advanced Engineering Studies and for a U.S.-Russian venture, Openworld Learning.
Earlier in his career, Mark was principal researcher and author of studies on targeted economic revitalization strategies for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. With support from Buckminster Fuller, Arthur C. Clarke, and Freeman Dyson, he directed the Sabre Foundation's Earthport Project to establish free trade zones near the equator as satellite launch platforms for commercial and scientific ventures. Mark also was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's consulting practice on private infrastructure provision and local service delivery. His articles have appeared in Reason Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Policy Review, The Freeman, Cayman Financial Review, Cato Policy Report, and the Journal of Economic Affairs.
Mark is a graduate of Harvard University in social studies (1974) and a former Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where he researched ways that community associations can awaken real estate assets and take on greater municipal service responsibilities. His personal interests include kayaking, flying, square foot gardening, desktop manufacturing, and architectural design.
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Birthday - April 17
Gender - M
Relationships and Family - Valnora Leister (wife), Shawn Leister-Frazier (son), Alexa Leister-Frazier (daughter), Andrew Leister-Frazier (son)
Over the past 30 years, Mark has worked in more than 50 countries on market-based reforms and free economic zone development. His focus has been on pre-investment studies and on business climate reforms and streamlined processes to remove barriers to investment and entrepreneurship. Among the projects he has assisted are Zonamerica (http://Zonamerica.com) in Uruguay, the Montego Bay Free Zone in Jamaica, and dozens of free zones and business and technology parks in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His clients have included the World Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Israel Export Development Corporation, the German Marshall Fund, and NTT of Japan. He has edited or published guidebooks during this period on Enterprise Zones, Foreign-Trade Zones, and Export Processing Zones.
As cofounder and president of Openworld, a nonprofit volunteer and consulting network, Mark specializes in strategies to include residents and community groups as beneficiaries of the rise in real estate values generated by successful free zones. He has designed and overseen “quickstart” arts-related economic revitalization projects for the Artisans Courtyard (http://ArtisansCourtyard.org) and the Arts & Business Connection of Dayton, focusing on land trust endowment funding for the arts-related education, 3D printing, and community beautification projects. He also served as principal investigator for a Sabre Foundation/John Whitehead Foundation-funded study on how philanthropies can catalyze self-funding community land trusts benefiting local residents and scholarship programs through challenge offers of digital donations.
Mark has worked as well on initiatives to spread skills through low-cost methods. He designed peer learning and microscholarship initiatives in economically lagging regions that have spread internet skills to more than 9000 students in Asia. He also co-designed and supervised software development for ‘just in time learning’ projects, including an eLearning authoring tool for MIT’s Center for Advanced Engineering Studies and for a U.S.-Russian venture, Openworld Learning.
Earlier in his career, Mark was principal researcher and author of studies on targeted economic revitalization strategies for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. With support from Buckminster Fuller, Arthur C. Clarke, and Freeman Dyson, he directed the Sabre Foundation's Earthport Project to establish free trade zones near the equator as satellite launch platforms for commercial and scientific ventures. Mark also was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's consulting practice on private infrastructure provision and local service delivery. His articles have appeared in Reason Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Policy Review, The Freeman, Cayman Financial Review, Cato Policy Report, and the Journal of Economic Affairs.
Mark is a graduate of Harvard University in social studies (1974) and a former Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where he researched ways that community associations can awaken real estate assets and take on greater municipal service responsibilities. His personal interests include kayaking, flying, square foot gardening, desktop manufacturing, and architectural design.
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Birthday - April 17
Gender - M
Relationships and Family - Valnora Leister (wife), Shawn Leister-Frazier (son), Alexa Leister-Frazier (daughter), Andrew Leister-Frazier (son)
Affiliations (following/followers): Facebook: mark.frazier1 Twitter: @openworld @peerlearning