Alan L. Madian, 74, an economist, management consultant and investment banker who had worked for the past three years as a senior adviser at the Brattle Group consultancy in Washington, died Aug. 10 at his home in McLean.
He had prostate cancer, said his wife Susan Kneller.
Mr. Madian had worked in private-sector and government positions for more than three decades. Before joining the Brattle Group, he worked at consultancies including the LECG Corp. and the PA Consulting Group.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he was managing director and chief executive of Erb and Madian, an investment banking operation in Washington. He also was president of the consulting firm Madian Economic Associates, also in the District.
Mr. Madian’s areas of expertise included energy and utilities. His clients included government agencies, private companies and the World Bank.
Early in his career, he held government positions including economic adviser to New York Gov. Hugh Carey and economic adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.
Alan Leonard Madian was born in New York City. After Army service in the late 1950s, he received a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959 and a master’s degree in political science from Yale University in 1962.
At Berkeley, he was one of the original candidates of SLATE, a campus political party that protested racial segregation and pursued other progressive causes. In the 1960s and ’70s, he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics.
His first marriage, to Marcia Dunn, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Susan Kneller of McLean; two children from his second marriage, Nicholas Madian and Antonia Madian, both of McLean; and two brothers.
— Emily Langer
