1. Daniel R. Gross – Safeguards International, LLC
Consultant in International Development
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201 West Ponce de Leon Avenue,Unit 702
Decatur, Georgia – 30030 - USA
Tel. +1-301-706-6416
Skypename: danielrgross
e-mail: dangross44@gmail.com
Relevant Areas of Experience:
Social and Environmental Safeguards
Evaluation
Indigenous Peoples
Community Development
Community Forestry
Agricultural Development
Employment History:
Independent Consultant – 2004-date
World Bank - Lead Anthropologist,Sustainable Development Department, 1989 – 2004
Independent Consultant - 1987 – 1989
Director, Cultural Anthropology Program, - U.S. National Science Foundation: 1983 -1985
Visiting Professor of Anthropology - University of Brasília, Brazil 1975 - 1977
Professor of Anthropology - Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York
1969 – 1987
Education:
PhD - Anthropology – Columbia University - 1970
AB - Philosophy – University of Chicago – 1964
Public Schools – Atlanta, Georgia
Languages:
Language Speaking Comprehension Reading Writing
Portuguese Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent
Spanish Good Good Excellent Fair
French Fair Good Good Fair
English ---Mother Tongue---
Other Positions Held:
Editorial Board, American Anthropologist,1999 – 2002
Associate Editor, Human Ecology, Plenum Publishers, 1980 – 1992
Long Range Planning Committee, American AnthropologicalAssociation,1995 – 1998
President, Society for Economic Anthropology,1988 - 1989
Project Experience (at World Bank):
As Task-Team Leader:
Brazil: Pará State Integrated Rural Development Project
Argentina and Paraguay: Yacyretá Hydropower Project
Mexico: Second Community Forestry Project (PROCYMAF II)
Mexico: Community Forestry Project (PROCYMAF)
Mexico: Indigenous Biodiversity Conservation Project (GEF – COINBIO)
Brazil: Second National Environmental Project
Brazil: Emergency Amazon Fire Prevention and Control Project

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Brazil: GEF Biodiversity Project
Brazil: Indigenous Lands Project (G-7 Pilot Program)
Brazil: Environmental Conservation and Rehabilitation Project (CVRD)
Brazil: National Environmental Project
Brazil: Minas Gerais Forestry Project
Brazil: Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project
As Member of Project Team:
 Nigeria: Irrigation and Water Resource
Management Project
 Sudan: Review of Safeguard Implementation in
World Bank Investment Projects.
 Ethiopia: Knowledge Product on Social and
Environmental Impact Assessment
 Ethiopia: Review of Safeguard Implementation
in World Bank Investment Projects.
 Nigeria: Nigeria Erosion and Watershed
Management Project
 India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh – Wildlife
Conservation Project
 Argentina: Matanza-Riachuelo Sanitation
Project
 Argentina: Industrial Pollution Abatement
Project
 Argentina: Solid Waste Management Project
 Albania Power Sector Reform Project
 Argentina: Small Farmer Project (PROINDER)
 Argentina: Rural Poverty Reduction Project
 Bulgaria: Second National Transport Project
 Albania: Education, Excellence and Equity
Project
 Maldives Environmental Project
 Argentina: Rosario Rail and Highway Project
 Paraguay: Highway Rehabilitation Project
 Colombia: Peace and Development Project
 Brazil: Bahia Poor Urban Areas (Dias
Melhores)
 Brazil: Bahia Urban Development (Viver
Melhor II, Dias Melhores)
 Brazil: São Paulo Line 4 Metropolitan
Transport Project
 India: District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP)
 Brazil: Belo HorizonteUrban Transport
Integration Project
 Brazil: Bahia Urban Development Project
(PRODUR)
 Brazil: Ceará Urban Development and Water
Supply Project (PROURB)
 Brazil: Salvador Metropolitan Development
Project
 Brazil: Bahia Water Resources Management
Project
 Russia: Evaluation of Environmental
Institutions (IEG)
 Brazil: Ceará Water Resources Management
Project (PROGERIRH)
 Brazil: FortalezaUrban Transport Project
(METROFOR)
 Brazil: Salvador Urban Transport Integration
Project (METROSAL)
 Brazil: Rondônia Natural Resource
Management Project (PLANAFLORO)
 Brazil: Mato Grosso NaturalResource
Management Project (PRODEAGRO)
 Brazil: São Paulo Water Quality Project
(Guarapiranga)
 Brazil: Paraná Water Quality Project
 Brazil: Belo HorizonteWater Quality Project
 Venezuela: National Environment Project
 Russia: Evaluation of Environmental
Institutions (IEG
Other Project Experience
 Revision of Resettlement Criteria – FUNBIO – Brazilian Biodiversity Fund
 Kenya: Safeguards Design for Kenya Water Security and Climate Resiliance Project (Government of
Kenya – Ministry of Water Resources)
 Liberia: Citizen Engagement in Concession Management (UNDP/World Bank)
 Peru: Chaglla Hydropower Project (Inter-American Development Bank)
 Guatemala:
 Africa: Social Standards for Trans-African Highways System - African Union – 2012 - date
 Panama: Heritage Impact Analysis of Casco Antiguo (old City Center) – Construtora Norberto
Odebrecht– 2011-2012
 Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo – Puerto Plata Highway Review of Resettlement Planning- Inter-
American Development Bank - 2012
 Independent Expert Panel – Amaila Falls Hydropower Dam – IDB 2010 - 2011
 Independent Expert Panel on Biodiversity - IUCN – Holcim 2008 – 2010
Clients: (including design, supervision,evaluation: Environ, IBRD, USAID, IADB, HIID, IUCN, UNDP,
African Union, Chevron, Construtora Norberto Odebrecht, Government of Kenya):

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Work Experience by Country:
Albania, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Colombia, Dominican Republic,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Maldives, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela.
Publications by Daniel R. Gross
Books:
1992 Discovering Anthropology:An Introduction for College Students [890pp] Mountain View, California:
McGraw Hill Publishing Company [formerly Mayfield Publishing Company]
1973 Peoples and Culturesof Native South America [Edited Volume]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Natural
History Press
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
Guilt by Association:The Culture of Accusation and the American Anthropological Association’s Investigation
of Darkness in El Dorado. American Anthropologist Vol. 106(4): 687-698 (2004, with Thomas A. Gregor).
The Adaptive Dimensions of Leisure Time. American Ethnologist Vol. 13(3): 524-536 (1986, with J. Rubin, N.
M. Flowers)
Amazonia and the Progress of Ethnology. Latin American Research Review. Vol 20 (2): 200 - 222 (1985). Time
Allocation: A Tool for Cultural Study. AnnualReview of Anthropology.13: 519 - 558 (1984).
Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthropology. In Emilio F. Moran (Ed.) The
Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology AAASSelected Symposium Number 92 (1984). Boulder Colorado:
Westview Press. pp. 253 - 263.
Village Movement in Relation to Resources in Amazonia. In R.Hames & W. Vickers (Eds.) Adaptive Responses
of Native Amazonians (1983). New York: Academic Press. pp. 429 - 449.
The Ecological Perspective in Economic Anthropology.In S. Ortiz (Ed.) Economic Anthropology: Topics and
Theories. Lanham, MD: University Press of America (1983). pp. 155 - 181.
Fetishism and Functionalism: the Political Economy of Capitalist Growth in Latin America. Comparative
Studiesin Society and History 25(4): 694 - 702 (1983).
Variations in Swidden Practices in Four Central Brazilian Societies. Human Ecology 10(2): 203 – 208 (1982)
(with N. Flowers, M. Ritter, D. Werner.)
The Indians and the Brazilian Frontier. Journal of International Affairs. 36(1): 1 - 14 (1982)
Alcohol: El Gran Jeito de Brasil. Ejecutivo 1(1): 38-43 (1982).
Proteina y Cultura en la Amazonia: Una Segunda Revision. Amazonia Peruana 3(6): 127-143 (1982).
In the Xingu: A Shattered Peace. Geo 3(4): 26 - 34 (1981). [Translated as Indiens: Le Dernier Carre. Geo
(France) 30: 50 - 70 (1981)].
Ecology and Acculturation among Native Peoples of Central Brazil. In Francoise Barbira-Scazzocchio (Ed.)
Land. People and Planning in Contemporary Amazonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University, Centre of Latin
American Studies (1980). Occasional Publ. No. 3.

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Subsistence Productivity and Hunting Effort in Native South America. Human Ecology 7(4): 303- 315 (1979)
(D.Werner, N.Flowers, M.Ritter).
Ecology and Acculturation Among Native Peoples of Central Brazil. Science 206:1043 - 1050 (1979 (with G.
Eiten, N. M. Flowers, M. Leoi, M. L. Ritter and D. Werner).
The Political Economy of Drought in Northeastern Brazil. In Rolando Garcia (Ed.) Nature Pleads Innocent
[Report, Drought and Man Project] (1979). Geneva: International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study.
(with N. M. Flowers).
A New Approach to Central Brazilian Social Organization. In M. L. Margolis and W. Carter (Eds.) Brazil:
Anthropological Perspectives (1979). New York: Columbia University Press. pp.321-342.
Etnologia Xinguana. Anuário Antropológico.Rio de Janeiro: Edições Tempo Brasileiro 76 (1977). pp. 282 -
291.
Reintegrating Anthropology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.Washington,DC: American Association of
Physical Anthropologists.Vol. 19: 89 - 94 (1975).
Protein Capture and Cultural Development in the Amazon Basin. American Anthropologist 77(3): 526 - 549
(1975). [Translation: Consumo Proteico e Desarollo Cultural en la Cuenca Amazonica. Amazonia Peruana 3(6):
59 - 90 (1982).]
Dialectics in the Forest. Reviews in Anthropology 2(l):6O-69 (1975).
Energy Flow Studies Among Brazilian Sisal Workers. Proceedings of the IBPISSRC Workshop on Energy Flow
in Human Communities (1974). University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University.
Factionalism and Local-Level Politics in Rural Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Research 29(2): 123-144
(1973).
Lip Disks on the Amazon. Science Digest 72(5): 12-19 (1972).
Ritual and Conformity: A Religious Pilgrimage to Northeastern Brazil. Ethnology 10(1): 129-148 (1971).
Technological Change and Caloric Costs: Sisal Agriculture in Northeastern Brazil. American Anthropologist
73(3): 725-740 (1971). (with Barbara A. Underwood) [2 reprints].
The Great Sisal Scheme. Natural History 88(3): 48-55 (1971). [11 reprints]
Technical Reports (partial list):
Liberia: Citizen Engagement in Concessions Management. UNDP/ World Bank (in Progress)
Sudan: Safeguard Performance in Multi-Donor Trust Fund Projects. World Bank (2012)
Panama: Heritage Impact Assessment – Coastal Highway Phase III. (2011)
Ethiopia: Safeguard Performance in World Bank Investment Projects. World Bank (2012)
Ethiopia: Strengthening Environmental and Social Safeguards in Ethiopia: Towards a World Bank –
Government Dialogue. World Bank Knowledge Product (2012)
Safeguards in Lending to Fragile and Conflict Affected States. World Bank. (2011)
Guidance Note on Involuntary Resettlement. InterAmerican Development Bank, Washington,DC (2010)
Training for Social Development Staff at the World Bank. Washington,DC.(2010)

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Mexico: Community Forestry – World Bank - Implementation Completion Report (2007)
Brazil: National Environmental Project – World Bank Implementation Completion Report (2004)
Brazil: Maranhao Land Management – World Bank - Implementation Completion Report (1992)
POLONOROESTE Special Amerindian Project Washington,DC: World Bank/FAQ Cooperative Program
(1987)
Land Conflict at EMADE Oil Palm Plantation. Washington,DC The World Bank (1987)
Land Conflict at Destilaria CAIMAN, SA. Washington,DC, The World Bank (1987)
Carajas and POLONOROESTE. Washington,DC: The World Bank (1987)
Higher Education in Agriculture at the Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Washington,DC:
USAID
POLONOROESTE, Special Amerindian Project: Supervision Report. Washington,DC: The World Bank (l997)
Higher Education in Agriculture in Ceara, Brazil. ("Undergraduate Education," and "Faculty Development."
Washington,DC: USAID.
Carajás Iron Mine, Special Amerindian Project: Supervision Report. Washington,DC: The World Bank. (1986)
Northeast (Brazil) Rural Development: Maranhão. Washington,DC: The World Bank. (1986)
"Plants" in Resource Inventory and Baseline Study Methods for Developing Countries. Edited by F.P.Conant,=
P.Rogers, M.Baumgardner, C. McXell, R.Dasmann and P.Reining. Washington,DC: AAAS (1983)
“Artisanal Fisheries in the Sotavento Islands,Republic of Cape Verde" Washington,DC: Aurora Associates
(Sponsor: USAID) with W. Brownell & J. Sutinen. 107pp. (1982)