02/12/2022
After a technical, market development, and management career in American business, Bruce started his economic development career with an advisory assignment with Oxfam America’s Cambodia office. Now in his 20th year in Cambodia, Bruce’s original work in the fisheries trade expanded to working with disadvantaged women in the garment industry; lecturing in university-level business topics; managing an Australian business volunteer agency; conducting or managing a number of diverse consulting assignments, and most notably being awarded and managing horticultural development grants from the New Zealand government to iDE Cambodia amounting to US$14-million over 15-years.
Bruce most enjoys working at the interface between the economic development and the private sectors. He prides himself on being able to see the strategic ‘big picture’ as well as pay attention to detail. He has two grown Cambodian sons attending university in the USA in the health care professions. He is an avid bicyclist, especially enjoying Cambodia’s back roads and trails. Bruce earned a multi-disciplinary B.Sc. degree in chemistry, plastics technology, and management from Philadelphia University, and an M.B.A. degree in marketing from Seton Hall University.
