Today my guest  is financial advisor and consultant to cities, states, and national governments, John Berenyi, who will discuss public policy issues that include: military spending, pension reform, mining the sea, education reform, mass transit, government re-organization, and the pension time bomb!

        

Mr. John Berenyi, has undergraduate and graduate degrees in, engineering, management sciences and applied economics from Columbia University. He has been an investment banker, who has specialized in alternative energy and environmental finance for the past 25 years. In the early part of his career, as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University, he developed the composite set of environmental indicators to measure the quality of life in cities across the United States. Cities, counties, states, and academic institutions have adopted this work, across America, as a tool for public of public policy and evaluation. Today, after a long career serving companies like Citicorp, HSBC Capital and IF Rothschild, he is the managing director of Ecocite, a Canadian-based company that works as an energy investment trust for eco-property development. He is also the Senior Advisor on Energy to the AJ Congress to implement the US-Israeli Energy Independence. Act. He is directing the Infrastructure & Energy Solutions Group (IESG), which is working on solutions regarding sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy for municipalities. John Berenyi has been an important contributor to The Advocates over the past three years, with his annual year-end predictions, his important and critical contributions on energy independence, financial market analysis and American sustainability.

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