WALTER YEP

Walter Yep, Senior Advisor, has over 30 years of civil and military planning experience with the U.S. Army Engineers, particularly the Sacramento District in California, retiring as Chief of the District's Planning Division. He then founded his own water resources consulting firm.

His responsibilities for water resources planning covered large parts of a multi-state area in the Pacific Southwest. He served for many years as the representative to the CALFED program. His military planning program responsibilities included comprehensive plans for some 22 western installations. Other Corps assignments included responsibilities as an economist and as an advisor on select foreign activities, particularly in the Pacific Basin and Saudi Arabia. He was recently nominated by Governor Davis to serve on the California Water Commission.

Mr. Yep holds a B.A. degree in economics from San Francisco State University and an M.S. degree in agricultural economics from the University of California at Berkeley.