Dr. deLucia is the President of S³IDF (U.S.) and Chairman of S³IDF (India) and the primary founder of these organizations. He is also a Director of the LaGuardia Foundation. Trained in engineering and economics (Ph.D. Harvard University), for more than thirty years he has been a consultant heading teams examining energy, water and other natural resources and related infrastructure development issues. He has advised Governments, firms, financial institutions and NGOs regarding policy and project matters, with experience in more than sixty countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa and Eastern Europe.

In recent years, the focus of his work has been primarily on small-scale (often rural) infrastructure and related investments (e.g. energy-dependent agro-processing schemes) and on two mechanisms that allow such investments to yield greater development synergies. The first mechanism is to foster increased participation of local private-sector players in all aspects of these investments - planning, implementation, ownership and operation. The second mechanism taps the absorptive capacity of local capital markets, which is often sufficient if appropriate financial engineering and instruments are employed; as a result local savings can be utilized and local financial markets developed. Dr. deLucia's work, in addition to focusing on the investments themselves and their viability, has been addressing capacity building of investment sponsors/owners and local bank and non-bank Financial Institutions by promoting financing approaches and instruments that have been successfully employed in OECD settings and an increasing number of developing country environments. His extensive rural project experience has yielded expertise in the practicum of institutional, regulatory and financing approaches to facilitate rural/small-investment and broader program implementation in the context of different country situations.

Achieving the increased market penetration of small-scale private sector infrastructure investments and the aforementioned development synergies requires development assistance and/or development finance to catalyze the process. Some of Dr. deLucia's work has involved the design of the required interventions for entities such as the World Bank. Other work has evaluated best practices that might be, with appropriate modification, transferred as part of such interventions. Other efforts have been investment, player and/or Financial Institution specific, including advising on specific deals. His latest contribution on these issues was chairing at the request of the World Bank a session of its Infrastructure Forum (May 2001) on small business provision of infrastructure services.

He has directed or participated in more than 50 infrastructure projects in every geographic area of the developing world over the last 30 years. Much of this work has been on projects for the multilateral development of finance institutions (ADB, IBRD, IDB, and IFC) or their member countries, serving both as team leader and/or specialist expert. He has also worked on developing and transition economy infrastructure and financing matters for NGOs, private firms and bilateral assistance agencies.

He has written extensively on infrastructure, financing, and environment and development issues. He served as a member on the Advisory Board of UN Journal Natural Resources Forum. As a guest editor he organized and wrote some of the articles for the November 2000 Special Issue of Natural Resources Forum on "Small-Scale Natural Resources and Related Infrastructure Development". This special issue explores the challenges of local private participation and financing of small-infrastructure investments in various sectors and in cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America. He also has experience as a direct investor in various investments in developing countries.