Mark Lunsford has 30 years of airport consulting experience and is known for successfully leading challenging multi-disciplinary projects related to planning for and assessing major airport-related investments. Mark’s experience includes airport master planning; economic cost/benefit analyses, business/financial planning; traffic forecasting; airport facility and land use planning; environmental/sustainability planning; security assessments; and privatization/transaction advisory. His work has spanned the globe and includes almost 10 years leading LeighFisher’s global aviation consulting practice, including responsibility for offices and projects on six continents. While at LeighFisher, Mark personally led many of the company’s most challenging multi-disciplinary projects including airport master plan studies (e.g., DFW Airport), airport privatization studies (e.g., the sell-side technical and financial studies for the first five major airports concessioned in Brazil), and airport security studies in the USA post September 11, 2001 (e.g., a 30-person on-site team assisting Boeing and the US Transportation Security Administration with developing and analyzing technical and financial options for achieving 100% checked baggage screening at all 430+ US commercial service airports by January 1, 2003). Most recently, Mark has worked on airport projects in Ecuador, Bhutan, Nepal, and five countries in the Caribbean.