Lead Environmental Specialist
Urban Development, Infrastructure Group
The World Bank

NATIONALITY

American

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

B.S. Industrial Engineering, Notre Dame, 1964.
M.S. Civil Engineering (Water Resources), U. Oklahoma, 1968.
Ph.D. Environmental Systems Engineering, U. Oklahoma, 1970.
Registered Professional Engineer, State of Michigan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Bartone is lead environmental engineer of the Urban Development Division, Infrastructure Group. He specializes in urban wastewater and solid waste management and pollution control, with over thirty years experience in the international field. Mr. Bartone is coordinator of the Bank’s thematic group on urban environment and has responsibility for knowledge management and staff training in this field. He also provides specialized support to Bank lending operations in the areas of strategic environmental planning, urban wastewater and solid waste management and pollution control, in recent projects such as:

• Dominican Republic (wastewater and solid waste management in tourist areas)
• OECS countries (solid waste management including shipboard waste reception)
• Brazil (four river basin pollution control projects; sector study on solid waste management)
• Chile (sector study on health impacts of wastewater reuse in Santiago)
• Mexico (water and sewerage sector loan; Monterrey industrial pretreatment program)
• Argentina (industrial and solid waste management project)
• Colombia (national urban environment project; Cartagena sewerage project)
• Turkey (national solid waste management strategy)
• Palestine (West Bank municipal solid waste management)
• Mauritius (national solid waste management project)
• Ghana (five cities urban environment project)
• Philippines (national solid waste management project)
• Bangladesh (municipal services project; national solid waste management strategy)
• Sri Lanka (Colombo environmental improvement project)
• India (strategic planning for solid waste management)
• Vietnam (Halong water supply, sanitation and solid waste project; Haiphong city development strategy)

Prior to joining the Bank’s Water and Sanitation Division in 1986, he worked fifteen years in Latin America with PAHO/WHO as regional environmental engineering advisor, and as technical manager of the Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) in Lima, Peru. During 1977-78 he was senior visiting research engineer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency working on nutrient and toxic pollution issues in the Great Lakes. He has taught graduate short courses in universities throughout Latin America, has published extensively in his field, and was the recipient of the International Solid Waste Association’s 1998 Publications Award for an article on Local Management of Hazardous Wastes from Small-Scale and Cottage Industries.