U.S. Climate Economists Mailing List May 30, 2017 Name Contact Information Anderson, Terry Property and Environment Research Center A founder of the Free Market Environmentalism, coauthor (with Leal) of the basic reference on the subject, head of PERC until just recently. See Anderson, T.L. and McChesney, F.S. 2003. Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law . Princeton, MA: Princeton University Press. Suite A Bozeman, MT Phone The Rockefeller University B.S. University of Montana, Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. Ausubel, Jesse Email Address r.edu New York, NY http://www.rockefeller.edu/ research/faculty/researchaffi liates/JesseAusubel/#conten t Avery, Dennis Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University in New York City. From 1977-1988 Mr. Ausubel worked for the National Academies complex in Washington DC as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, staff officer of the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and from 1983-1988 Director of Programs for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Mr. Ausubel was a main organizer of the first UN World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979), which substantially elevated the global warming issue on scientific and political agendas. During 1979-1981 he led the Climate Task of the Resources and Environment Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria, an East-West think-tank created by the U.S. and Soviet academies of sciences. Mr. Ausubel helped formulate the US and world climate research programs. Ausubel is one of the top two or three authorities on how the environment is getting cleaner and safer overtime. He keeps a relatively low profile on the climate issue, but we’ve talked over the years. See Ausubel, J.H. 1996. Liberation of the environment. Daedalus. 125(3):1-17 Churchville, VA “Educated at Harvard and Columbia,” he apparently does not have a Ph.D. Dennis Avery is a senior fellow with The Heartland Institute, director of the Center for Global Food Issues, and a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute. Retired or emeritus from Hudson, working on a book on the history of climate and civilization. Author of one of the earliest articles expressing skepticism toward global warming theory, it appeared in Readers Digest. He is retired. Boston, MA https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/dennis-avery Director of Research at the Beacon Hill Institute. He holds a Master of Science in International Economics degree from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) degree from the St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Institute for 21st Century Agriculture Bachman, Paul Baden, John A. Qualifications FREE Bozeman, MT Founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and Gallatin Writers, Inc. FREE's focus is environmental economics and policy analysis. Gallatin works with writers of the West. Both are 501(c)(3) organizations with a shared office in Bozeman, MT. Dr. Baden was a leader in developing the New Resource Economics, an incentive-based approach to environmental and natural resource management. He has held endowed professorships, received teaching awards, and is the author or contributing editor of seven books and numerous articles on energy and natural resources. Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969,and then was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in environmental policy https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/john-a-baden Belzer, Richard Burton Mt. Vernon, VA Bezdek, Roger, Management Information Services, Inc. Oakton, VA From 1988-1998, staff economist at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, From 1998-2001, visiting professor of public policy at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the regulatory studies program at the University's Weidenbaum Center. Oversees the Regulatory Checkbook.org website and www.neutalsource.org See: Belzer, R.B. 1994. Is reducing risk the real objective of risk management? Chapter 10 in Finkel, A.M. and Golding, D. (Eds.) Worst Things First? The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. MA in agricultural economics from the University of California (Davis) in 1980, MA in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1982, and Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1989. Contributor to CCR-IIc, author of Bezdek, R. 2014. The Social Costs of Carbon? No, the Social Benefits of Carbon. Management Information Services, Inc. Agreed to let us use this as basis for a chapter in CCRIIc. Quoted in Wash Post on 12/15/14: “CO2 is basically plant food, and the more CO2 in the environment the better plants do,” proclaimed Roger Bezdek, a consultant to energy companies, at an event hosted Monday by the United States Energy Association, an industry trade group.... The presentation began as a standard recitation of the climate-change denial position, that “there’s been no global warming for almost two decades” and that forecasts are “based on flawed science.” But then Bezdek pivoted into a robust defense of carbon dioxide’s benefits.” (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D. Economics (University of Illinois) Founder and chairman of Institute for Energy Research. Bradley, Robert Houston, TX Bryce, Robert Austin, TX Butos, William N. Professor of Economics Trinity College Hartford, CT Carl, Jeremy Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, CA Author of Oil, Gas, and Government, a massive history in two volumes published by the Cato Institute in 1996, and later books on climate change and energy policy. He received a B.A. in economics from Rollins College, where he was awarded the S. Truman Olin award for the top student in economics. M.A. in economics from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in political economy from International College, Los Angeles, where the Chair of his dissertation committee was Murray Rothbard. He then spent the summer of 1977 in residence at the Institute for Humane Studies in Menlo Park, California, studying with Austrian-school economists, including Rothbard and Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek. Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of five books on energy. He is also the author of a recent report for the institute on the global coal sector. Had a good piece on coal in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on November 12, 2014 George M. Ferris Professor of Corporation Finance & Investments Department of Economics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Coauthor of “Causes and Consequences of the Climate Change Boom,” Independent Review, a good review of gov’t spending on climate change. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at Trinity, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow in New York University's Austrian Economics Program since 1993 and lectures at the Foundation for Economic Education and Mises Institute. (NOAA Letter Signatory) B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College, CUNY. Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of Hoover’s Energy Policy Task Force and Arctic Security Working Group. Previously a research fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford. Previously a research fellow in resource and development economics at the Energy and Resources Institute (India). Author of Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America’s Energy Choices and Assessing the Role of Distributed Power Systems in the US Power Sector . MPA, Kennedy School of Govt. (Harvard), Doctoral work at Stanford Carlin, Alan Senior analyst and manager, USEPA, 1971-2010; whistleblower on EPA’s endangerment finding, affiliated with CEI, author or co-author of about 40 publications; author of Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy , 2015, Stairway Press. Fairfax, VA Chilton, Kenneth Lindenwood University Cooke, Amy Oliver Independence Institute Denver, CO Main phone line: Fax: Cordato, Roy John Locke Foundation Raleigh, NC Crews, Wayne Washington, DC 20005 Phone: (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D. Economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); B.S. Physics (California Institute of Technology) https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/alan-carlin Kenneth W. Chilton, Ph.D. is Professor of Management at Lindenwood University and Director of the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment. He previously was a researcher and administrator (for 24 years) at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy (formerly Center for the Study of American Business) at Washington University in St. Louis. PhD in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis (1992, 1994). https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/dr-kennith-chilton Executive VP and director of the Energy Policy Center at the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free market State Policy Network think tank since 2004. Lawmakers frequently request Cooke’s testimony on energy and transparency in legislative committee hearings. She collaborated with William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to expose the high cost of Colorado’s “new energy economy,” a supposed model for renewable energy for the rest of the country, questionable behavior at the Public Utilities Commission, and collusion between lawmakers, bureaucrats and special interest groups. Their work resulted in five pieces of legislation introduced during the 2011 legislative session. Vice President for Research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation. From 1993-2000 he served as the Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC. From 19871993 he was Senior Economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET) in Washington, DC. He has served as full time economics faculty at the University of Hartford and at Auburn University and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Spoke at ICCC-1. Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Vice president for policy and director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His work explores the impact of government regulation of free enterprise, antitrust and competition policy, safety and environmental issues, and information age concerns like privacy, online security, broadband policy, and intellectual property. He writes and updates CEI’s annual report on the cost of regulation. See Crews, W. 2013. Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. Washington, DC: Competitive Enterprise Institute. He holds an M.B.A. from William and Mary and a B.S. from Lander College in Greenwood, South Carolina. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/clyde-wayne-crews-jr Driessen, Paul Fairfax, VA Everett, Bruce The Fletcher School Tufts University Author of a Heartland policy study on sustainability and the 2003 book, Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. Bellevue, WA: Merril Press and other books; author of many articles and reports on energy, mining, climate change, sustainable development, malaria control and other topics; senior policy analyst, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality. BA, geology and ecology, Lawrence University; JD, environmental and natural resource law, University of Denver. Spoke at several ICCCs. (NOAA Letter Signatory) https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/paul-driessen Faculty Tufts University’s Fletcher School, over forty years of experience in the international energy industry. Specializes in analysis of global oil markets and international energy and environmental policy. Executive for ExxonMobil until 2002. Medford, MA, Fisher, Travis Institute for Energy Research Washington, D.C. Office Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone Goklany, Indur Vienna, VA (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D., International Relations, Fletcher School (Tufts) Institute for Energy Research economist. Fisher comes to IER with seven years of experience as an economist with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In his role, Fisher oversees research and analysis on electricity issues and will help expand IER's research on electricity markets, FERC, and grid reliability issues. Fisher graduated with a B.S. and M.E. in Economics North Carolina State University. Our best expert on the benefits of fossil fuels. A science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior, where he holds the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy. See: Goklany, I.M. 2009. Have increases in population, affluence and technology worsened human and environmental well-being? The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development 1 (3). Goklany, I.M. 2007. The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. Gordon, Rob Goklany, I.M. 1999. Cleaning the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution. Washington, DC: Cato Institute. He spoke at ICCC-2 and ICCC-4 and ICCC-12. B.Tech degree is from the Indian Institutes of Technology and his M.S. and PhD in electrical enginerring are from Michigan State University.[ https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/indur-goklany I believe he is leading Trump’s regulation transition team. President of Responsible Resources. Prior to joining Responsible Resources, Gordon served as professional staff of the Committee on Resources in the 108th and 109th Congresses, where his primary work was on a measure to amend the Endangered Species Act, which passed the House of Representatives with substantial bipartisan support. He also conducted oversight and investigation on issues such as the management of international environmental programs, the management of funds derived from excise taxes on hunting and fishing, and other environmental issues. Before joining the committee, Gordon served as director of the National Wilderness Institute, which he cofounded in 1989. He also served for two terms as a board member of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Board of Conservation and Recreation https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/robert-gordon Green, Kenneth ext: Senior Director, Energy and Natural Resource Studies, Fraser Institute, previously held positions at AEI and Reason. Author of a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate . In 2011, he published a supplementary textbook for college students studying energy and energy policy, Abundant Energy: Fuel of Human Flourishing. In 2012, he co-authored an article with Steven F. Hayward entitled, 'Market-Friendly Energy', in The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, published by the George W. Bush Presidential Center. BS in biology from University of California, Los Angeles; MS in Genetics from San Diego State University; and Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering (D.Env.) from University of California, Los Angeles. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/kenneth-green President, Science and Environmental Policy Project; VA-SEEE (Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment, Northern Virginia Chapter) https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/kenneth-haapala Senior economist and Project Manager for the Beacon Hill Institute's State Tax Analysis Modeling Program. He is an associate professor of economics at Suffolk University. A specialist in the areas of economic development, international trade and taxation, he has lectured, taught and conducted research in almost 20 countries. He received his BA (Mod.) in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin and his PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is also a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution. Before coming to the Naval Postgraduate School, Henderson was the Senior Economist for Health Policy and Energy Policy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. Henderson has also been on the faculty of Santa Clara University and the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. He has written in a wide range of scholarly publications and has published over 200 articles and book reviews in magazines and newspapers, including, in declining order of frequency, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Red Herring, the Freeman, Reason, and Regulation. He has written, edited, or co-authored four books, The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (1993), The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey (2002), Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (2006), and The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2008). Blogs at econlib.org. Haapala, Kenneth Haughton, Jonathan Boston, MA Henderson, David Washington, DC Hertzmark, Donald Atlanta, GA Illarionov, Andre Washington, DC @donhertzmark.com Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Donald Hertzmark is adjunct professor in global electricity markets at Johns Hopkins University. He is an international energy specialist with more than 25 years of experience in oil and gas economics and analysis. He has worked for governments, private companies, state enterprises, and international organizations in more than 90 countries worldwide to assess markets and projects, provide counsel for energy sector restructuring, design and evaluate energy programs and projects, identify sources of financing, and price energy products. He has assisted clients in assessing and financing LNG, pipeline, refinery, and power plant investments in Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Former Soviet Union and has negotiated contract terms with offtake purchasers, fuel suppliers, and banks. He has taught short courses on energy project development, energy economics, and project investment evaluation to the staffs of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and African Development Bank https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/donald-hertzmark Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. He works as a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute Kreutzer, David , Washington, DC Leonard, Thomas Research Scholar, Council of the Humanities Lecturer, Department of Economics Robertson Hall, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Lesser, Jonathon A. Main: DC Office: Lewis, Marlo Competitive Enterprise Institute Washington, DC Now with EPA. Senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis, David Kreutzer researches and writes about how energy and global warming legislation would affect the economy. Kreutzer studies the effects of such measures at the national, local, and industry levels as senior research fellow in energy economics and climate change. Before joining Heritage in February 2008, Kreutzer was an economist at Berman and Company, a Washington-based public affairs firm. From 1984 to 2007, he taught economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he also served as director of the International Business Program. In 1994, Kreutzer was a visiting economist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and, in the early 1980s, he was a visiting economics instructor at Ohio University. Author of Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (2016). According to review in FEE: “Documents in excruciating detail how eugenic ideology corrupted the entire economics profession in the first two decades of the 20th century. Across the board, in the books and articles of the profession, you find all the usual concerns about race suicide, the poisoning of the national bloodstream by inferiors, and the desperate need for state planning to breed people the way ranchers breed animals. Here we find the template for the first-ever large-scale implementation of scientific social and economic policy.” President, Continental Economics, Inc. Over 30 years of experience working for regulated utilities, government, and as an economic consultant. He has addressed critical economic and regulatory issues affecting the energy industry in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, including gas and electric utility structure and operations, cost-benefit analysis, mergers and acquisitions, cost allocation and rate design, asset management strategies, cost of capital, depreciation, risk management, incentive regulation, economic impact studies, and general regulatory policy. Coauthor of the widely used textbook, Fundamentals of Energy Regulation , the second edition of which was published in 2013 by Public Utilities Reports, Inc., as well as numerous academic and trade press articles. Since 2013, Dr. Lesser has prepared studies for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, most recently a comprehensive review of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s cost-benefit study supporting its Clean Power Plan. Dr. Lesser is also an Editorial Board member for Natural Gas & Electricity. B.S degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of New Mexico, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Washington. (NOAA Letter Signatory) Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing on global warming, energy policy, and public policy issues. Marlo has been published in The Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, TechCentralStation, National Review, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has appeared on various television and radio programs, and his ideas have been featured in radio commentary by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy. Prior to joining CEI in 2002, he served as Director of External Relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California. During the 106th Congress, Marlo served as Staff Director of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. Marlo has also served as Research Director for the grassroots organization, Citizens Against Government Waste. Earlier, he was a Staff Consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, a Special Assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College. Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a B.A. in Political Science from Claremont McKenna College. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/marlo-lewis Libecap, Gary University of California Santa Barbara, CA Tel: Fax: Lipford, Jody Professor of Corporate Environmental Management in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA., Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, PERC, Bozeman, Montana. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Montana. His research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the open access losses for natural resources such as fisheries and freshwater, as well as the role of water markets in encouraging efficient use. Recommended by Terry Anderson re adapation. B.S., Francis Marion College M.A., Ph.D., Clemson University Joined Presbyterian College Faculty: 1991 Timothy Terrell recommended, he's a former student of Bruce Yandle's. Lipford, Jody W. and Bruce Yandle. 2010. "Environmental Kuznets Curves, Carbon Emissions, and Public Choice." Environmental and Development Economics 15:417-438 Loris, Nick Washington, DC Phone Lutter, Randal Lipford, Jody W. and Bruce Yandle. 2010. "Not the Time to Cap and Trade." Regulation. Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter 2009-2010: 3. Nicolas (Nick) Loris, an economist, focuses on energy, environmental and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow at The Heritage Foundation. A senior policy analyst in Heritage’s Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Loris researches and writes about energy supplies, energy prices and other economic effects of environmental policies and regulations, including climate change legislation, energy efficiency mandates and energy subsidies. He covers coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear gas and renewable energy policy and articulates the benefits of free market environmentalism. 2015: Loris spoke at Heartland’s event at COP-21 in Paris. An expert on cost benefit analysis, see his testimony to the House in 2011: http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Testimony-Lutter-EEEnvironmental-Regulations-Economy-Jobs-2011-2-15.pdf Lutter, R. and Kravitz, T. 2003. Do regulations requiring light trucks to be more fuel efficient make economic sense? An evaluation of NHTSA’s proposed standards. Regulatory Analysis 03-2. Washington, DC: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. Ph.D. Malloy, Ken Ken Malloy is executive director of the Center for the Study of Carbon and Energy Markets. He was formerly CEO of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets, which he founded in 1999. He was named by Public Utilities Fortnightly as one of five “Energy Innovators: Ringing in an Age of Enlightenment.” He is internationally recognized as a bold visionary on the energy industry’s transition from monopoly to competitive markets. He has given more than 600 presentations over the past two decades to every sector of the energy industry. He was the U.S. Department of Energy’s lead career official on policies relating to competition, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring over three administrations; was deputy executive director and general counsel of the Illinois Commerce Commission; director and assistant director of the predecessor of FERC’s Office of Economic Policy; and staff attorney in FERC’s Office of General Counsel. Prior to FERC, Malloy was a law professor at Western New England College School of Law, teaching in the area of federal economic regulation of industry. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/ken-malloy One of top three economists in the world on carbon and climate change, spoke at an ICCC and was willing to return. See: Mendelsohn, Robert Michaels, Robert Fullerton, CA office: phone: Miller, Dennis D. Baldwin Wallace University Miller, Stephen Mendelsohn, R., Dinar, A., and Williams, L. 2006. The distributional impact of climate change on rich and poor countries. Environment and Development Economics 11 (2): 159–78; Mendelsohn, R. 2004. The challenge of global warming. Opponent paper on climate change. In Lomborg, B. (Ed.) Global Crises, Global Solutions. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Mendelsohn, R. and Williams, L. 2004. Comparing forecasts of the global impacts of climate change. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 9: 315–33. Ph.D. Yale Univ. Prof. of Economics, California State University at Fullerton, brother of Cato’s Pat Michaels, past positions included Staff Economist at the Institute for Defense Analyses and researcher for consulting firms. I am Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Senior advisor to the Institute for Energy Research and an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. My research on electricity and natural gas markets has appeared in peer reviewed journals, law reviews, and industry publications. I also write “Power Moves,” a biweekly column on developments in high voltage power and its transmission, for Energy Metro Desk, probably the nation’s leading magazine for energy risk managers. Until recently I was Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Economic Policy for the Western Economic Association. Author of many articles on economics of climate change – cap and trade, efficiency, utilities. BA from the University of Chicago, PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor of Economics, Holder of the Endowed Buckhorn Chair in Economics, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio. (NOAA Letter Signatory) Berea, OH 7 Department of Economics Ph.D. Alexandria, VA Former head of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Mills, Mark The Manhattan Institute New York, NY Moore, Stephen Potomac, MD Murphy, Robert P. Institute for Energy Research CEO, Digital Power Group; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; and member of the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute. He writes the Energy Intelligence column for Forbes and is co-author with Peter Huber of the book, The Bottomless Well (Basic Books 2005) which rose to #1 in Amazon science. He has been published in various popular publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared on many TV shows including CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, NBC and ABC, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation, formerly senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal, coauthor with Kathleen Hartnett White of Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy (Regnery, 2016). He has written and spoken about the economic harms of carbon dioxide restrictions. Robert P. Murphy is a Senior Economist with IER specializing in climate change. His research focuses on the estimation of the "social cost of carbon," including the proper discount rate to be used in cost-benefit analyses and the implications of structural uncertainty for policy solutions. Washington, D.C. Office Murphy received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University in 2003, where he wrote his dissertation on capital and interest theory. After teaching at Hillsdale College for three years, he moved to the financial sector to work as an analyst for Arthur Laffer (of Laffer Curve fame). In addition to his role at IER, Murphy holds positions at several other free-market organizations, including Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, and Associated Scholar with the Mises Institute. Washington, DC Phone Murphy has written more than 100 articles for the layman on free-market economics and is the author of numerous books, including Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action (Independent Institute, 2015), Lessons for the Young Economist (Mises Institute, 2010), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism (Regnery, 2007). He has also given numerous radio interviews and public lectures on economic topics. Murray, Iain Washington, DC O’Keefe, William Providence Forge, VA Promboin, Ronald L. Murphy has also published several scholarly articles and notes in peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Private Enterprise, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, The Independent Review, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and The Review of Austrian Economics. Director of projects and analysis and senior fellow in energy, science and technology at the Competitive Enterprise Institute https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/iain-murray Former President, Solutions Consulting, Inc. and CEO of the George C. Marshall Institute. Together with John Sheldon he hosted and moderated a panel on “The New Congress and U.S. Energy Policy” on November 17, 2014 Former professor of Finance and Economics, University of Maryland University College. Westlake Village, CA Rahn, Richard Chairman Institute for Global Economic Growth Reston, VA +1 (NOAA Letter Signatory) Ph.D. Economics (Stanford University) Dr. Rahn earned: a B.A. in economics at the University of South Florida, from which he received the “Distinguished Alumnus Award,” an M.B.A. from Florida State University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Pepperdine University. Chairman of Improbable Success Productions and on the board of the American Council for Capital Formation. A longtime conservative spokesperson, former Chamber of Commerce economist, spoke at past Heartland events. Author of a good piece in Wash Times in January 2017: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/16/bias-ignorance-and-reality-in-climate-science/ Roberts, Tiffany Founder and Director The California Aspire Project Senior Energy and Climate Policy Analyst for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). Frequently testifies at California legislative hearings. She can speak about the LAO’s findings that AB 32 will reduce employment in California or she can speak about how carbon dioxide restrictions have a particularly harmful impact on low-income citizens. She spoke at ICCC-10. Sacramento, CA Sheldon, John B. Simmons, Daniel Former Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Institute. With William O’Keefe he hosted and moderated a panel on “The New Congress and U.S. Energy Policy” on November 17, 2014. Arlington, VA Institute for Energy Research Washington, DC Phone " Simmons, Randal Logan, UT Spencer, Jack Heritage Foundation Washington, DC Stevenson, David T. Caesar Rodney Institute Has joined Trump administration. Formerly Institute for Energy Research’s Vice President for Policy. Simmons previously served as IER’s Director of Regulatory and State Affairs. He oversees IER's work on energy and climate policy at the state and federal level. Prior to joining IER, Simmons served as director of the Natural Resources Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and worked as professional staff on the Committee on Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives. Simmons is a graduate of Utah State University and George Mason University School of Law. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/daniel-simmons Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute; Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business; Co-Founder, President and Director of Research of Strata; Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center; and former Mayor of Providence, Utah. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oregon, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Utah League of Cities and Towns and a Member of the Utah Governor's Privatization Commission. Professor Simmons’s books include Nature Unbound: Bureaucracy vs. the Environment, the awardwinning Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failure, Aquanomics: Water Markets and the Environment and The Political Economy of Culture and Norms: Informal Solutions to the Commons Problem. A contributing author to various volumes such as Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, he is the author of scholarly articles that have appeared in numerous journals, and his popular articles have been published in newspapers and magazines across the United States. Oversees Heritage Foundation research on a wide range of domestic economic issues as director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/jack-spencer Director, Center for Energy Competitiveness, Ceasar Rodney Institute, Delaware Newark, DE Stroup, Richard Adjunct professor at North Carolina State University, research fellow at the Independent Institute, adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, author of Eco-nomics and leading textbooks. Coauthor of CCR-IIc Chapter 1 Environmental Economics. He may not be able to attend due to health, ask Jane Shaw Stroup. Sutter, Dan S. Sorrell College of Business Troy University Troy, AL Phone: Terrell, Timothy Tol, Richard New York, NY Prof. of Economics, Troy University. Senior Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center Global Prosperity Initiative, George Mason University, 2007-present. A nationally recognized authority on the economics of weather, Professor Sutter has published in top journals in both the social and natural sciences including Applied Economics, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Public Choice, Economics and Wind, Weather and Forecasting, Natural Hazards Review, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He has been awarded fellowships and grants by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research. Wrote on 1/3/16: I would be happy to assist with the economics and cost/benefit volume of CCRII in whatever way I can. Let me know how I can help. Writes on economics of weather, carbon tax B.S., Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MA and Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University. https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/daniel-sutter Professor of Economics, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (Charlotte, NC). Author of paper: “The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ethics and Economics of the War on Conventional Energy” Recommended by Cal Beisner. Tol is one of the three or four leading economists on climate, made headlines by resigning from the IPCC to protest exaggeration in the SPM for the 2015 report. He’s a lukewarmer, supports a small carbon tax, and isn’t afraid to call out the “left” for exaggerating the threat. He has a good piece at http://www.theamerican-interest.com/2014/12/10/hot-stuff-cold-logic/ Tol, R.S.J. 2009. The economic effects of climate change. Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2): 29–51. Steve Hayward, in a Powerline post on this article on 1/3/15 wrote: Richard Tol, a European-based academic, is one of the pre-eminent environmental economists of our time, but he is not well known in the U.S. When the politicized “Stern Review” came out from the UK government in 2006 claiming that economic damages from climate change were already substantial, it cited Tols’ work several dozen times, prompting Tol to say that if a first year graduate student had submitted the Stern Review as a paper he would have flunked the student, so shoddy was its economic analysis. The Stern Review seemed to try to sneak Tols’ work in as a way of bolstering its weak claims. Like Roger Pielke Jr., Tol does not dispute the fundamental account of climate change, and he has participated as an author of the last four IPCC reports. Ph.D. U. of Sussex UK Tuerck, David Beacon Hill Institute Boston, MA Phone Effective January 2017, BHI is no longer affiliated with Suffolk University. I haven’t talked to David about it yet. In addition to serving as executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute, David G. Tuerck serves as professor and chairman of the Suffolk University Department of Economics. Prior to joining Suffolk University in 1982, he was a director in the Economic Analysis Group at Coopers & Lybrand, Washington, DC. Prior to that, he served as director of the Center for Research and Advertising at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Tuerck holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Virginia. His dissertation director was James M. Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Vermaelen, Theo Vogelsang, Timothy J. Theo Vermaelen is Professor of Finance at INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi). where he teaches in MBA, PhD and Executive programmes.. Dr. Vermaelen has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Catholic University of Leuven, The London Business School, UCLA and the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and the European Financial Review and advisory editor of Teaching and Case Abstracts. He is also a consultant to various corporations and government agencies and Programme Director of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. In Nov. 2014 Vermaelen wrote an excellent short article titled, “Is Refusing to Fight Climate Change Unethical?” http://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/is-refusing-to-fight-climate-changeunethical-3710 Department of Economics Easet Lansing, MI Phone: Fax: Webpage: http://www.econ.msu.edu/fa culty/Vogelsang/Vogelsang. html Yadama, Gautam N. Yandle, Bruce http://brownschool.wustl.ed u/Faculty/FullTime/Pages/G autamNYadama.aspx Bruce Yandle Economics Clemson, SC See also: http://knowledge.insead.edu/users/theove He is a graduate from the Department of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Commercial Engineer) and obtained an MBA and PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Recommended by Tom Sleeter in January 2017. Chair of Economics Department, Michigan State University. August 2006 – Present, Professor and Frederick S. Addy Distinguished Chair of Economics, Michigan State University. Previously Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; Professor of Economics, Cornell University; Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University; Member of the Field of Statistics, Cornell University; Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University Princeton University, Ph.D. Economics, 1993; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Mathematics, 1988 He may also have a position at Case Western Reserve. His email is still Washington University. Author of the 2013 coffee table book: Fires, Fuels, and the Fate of 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Impoverished. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Peabody Coal cites this book in its print ads. Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis Dean Emeritus of Clemson University's College of Business and Behavioral Science and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson. Famous for formulating the “Baptists and Bootleggers” description of rent seeking, also a pioneer in free-market environmentalism. Lipford, Jody W. and Bruce Yandle. 2010. "Environmental Kuznets Curves, Carbon Emissions, and Public Choice." Environmental and Development Economics 15:417-438 Lipford, Jody W. and Bruce Yandle. 2010. "Not the Time to Cap and Trade." Regulation. Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter 2009-2010: 3. Zycher, Benjamin American Enterprise Institute NW Washington, DC Office Phone Assistant Info: Nikolai Boboshko Phone: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. is the John G. Searle Chair and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on energy and environmental policy. He is also a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. Before joining AEI, Zycher conducted a broad research program in his public policy research firm, and was an intelligence community associate of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State. He is a former senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a former adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the California State University Channel Islands, and is a former senior economist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He served as a senior staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, with responsibility for energy and environmental policy issues. Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, MA in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and BA in political science from UCLA.