Juliana H. Pigey

Ms. Pigey, a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute since 1999 (and a consultant to UI for 6 years previous), has 18 years of international experience in local government financial and policy analysis; training; municipal infrastructure and utility budgeting, accounting, and reporting; intergovernmental fiscal reform; local government policy reform; and local government administration. Ms. Pigey has prepared baseline studies of local government finance systems; assisted local governments with improving capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting practices; identified municipal investment needs; and assisted in reforming local budget frameworks and charts of accounts. She has also proposed reform programs to increase local fiscal autonomy, analyzed legal and financial frameworks for the development of municipal credit markets, and provided policy analysis and assistance in legislative development. Ms. Pigey has worked directly with local governments in France on fiscal and budgetary analysis, budget forecasting, investment finance, and debt management. Countries in which Ms. Pigey has work experience include: Albania, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mali, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, and Vietnam.

Areas of Expertise: Decentralization (e.g. decentralization strategies and reform processes, legislative review and reform, intergovernmental finance systems); local governance; and municipal services (e.g. municipal finance and budget management, infrastructure finance and municipal debt issues, municipal service finances and management).

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