Seth Fearey has recently retired as an Assistant Professor at AUCA. He was teaching courses on urban planning and development and co-leading the Environmental and Urban Sustainability concentration. Seth was also co-leading the environmental sustainability task force for AUCA. Seth is a champion of the New Urbanism school of urban planning and an active advocate for making cities more environmentally sustainable. Seth has worked in the private, public, social, and academic sectors. He spent 30 years working in the high-tech sector and in economic development in California's Silicon Valley. He was an early champion of the Internet, forming an NGO and a consulting business to help communities develop plans to use the Internet to create jobs and improve quality of life. Seth was the Chief Operating Officer for Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network in the mid-2000s. There, Seth led an initiative on Climate Change, developing a program to create a renewable energy industry cluster in Silicon Valley. Seth arrived in Kyrgyzstan in 2009 to take the position of Director of Management and Operations then Country Director for the United States Peace Corps. Seth has a BA in Psychology and Political Science from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and an MBA from Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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