Joseph Aldy is a fellow at Resources for the Future. His research focuses on climate policy, mortality risk valuation, and energy policy. He coedited Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World (Cambridge University Press, 2007) with Robert Stavins, with whom he serves as codirector of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. He is also codirector of the International Energy Workshop and an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. Mr. Aldy served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 2000, where he was responsible for climate policy. He served as lead author of the Clinton administration’s 1998 report The Kyoto Protocol and the President’s Policies to Address Climate Change: Administration Economic Analysis. Mr. Aldy has participated in bilateral and multilateral conferences and meetings on climate policy in Argentina, Bolivia, China, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Korea, Israel, Mexico, and Uzbekistan, including COP-4, COP-5, the OECD, and the IEA.
Scott Barrett is professor of environmental economics and international political economy, director of the International Policy Program, and director of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His research focuses on interactions between natural and social systems, especially at the global level, and the institutions that mediate between them, such as the Kyoto Protocol, other international environmental agreements, and resolutions passed by the World Health Assembly. He is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Oxford University Press, 2003), for which he received the Erik Kempe Prize. His latest book, Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods (Oxford University Press), was published in September 2007.
Jason Burnett is an associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In this role, he assists the administrator and deputy administrator in the agency’s priority area of climate change and clean energy. In particular, Mr. Burnett is helping to develop the EPA’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA regarding greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Before joining the EPA, Mr. Burnett worked at Evolution Markets, where he consulted for industry, state governments, foreign governments, and the United Nations (UN) on the development of market-based regulatory systems to improve air quality. Previously, he worked at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, where he analyzed the regulatory impact analyses that the EPA and other agencies perform and coauthored several papers on individual regulations and the regulatory process.
Maureen Cropper is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, and a former lead economist at the World Bank. She is the former chair of the EPA Science Advisory Board, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Ms. Cropper’s research has focused on valuing environmental amenities (especially environmental health effects), on the discounting of future health benefits, and on the tradeoffs implicit in environmental regulations. Her recent research focuses on the externalities associated with motorization and on the interaction among residential location, land use, and travel demand.
Robert Hahn is the cofounder and executive director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at AEI. Previously, he worked for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including The American Economic Review, the Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2005) and several other books. In addition, Hahn is a cofounder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Al McGartland is the director of the National Center for Environmental Economics and lead economist at the EPA. He is responsible for developing interdisciplinary risk and benefit assessment methods to be used in the EPA’s regulatory analyses and for assessing the benefits and costs of environmental policies, including those related to climate change. The National Center for Environmental Economics issues the EPA’s Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses and conducts numerous studies to assess the benefits and costs of environmental programs. Prior to serving at the EPA, Mr. McGartland worked at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. While there, he reviewed environmental regulations and supporting analyses. He also served as the economic advisor to the chairman at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. McGartland was a vice president at Abt Associates, a public policy and economics consulting firm. He has published in several journals, including The American Economic Review, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Environmental Management, The Lancet, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He has contributed to numerous books and reports on environmental economic issues.
Steve Newbold is a policy analyst in the National Center for Environmental Economics at EPA, where he specializes in integrating ecological modeling and economic valuation for policy assessment, including cost-benefit analysis. He also has conducted research on cost-effective habitat protection, the benefits and costs of controlling small-firm pollution, habitat selection and population dynamics of birds, the impacts of cooling water withdrawals on fish populations, outdoor recreation demand, and the potential for adaptive management to improve ecological sustainability.
Thomas Schelling is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland and the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Harvard University. Previously, he was on the faculties of Yale University and the RAND Corporation. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. In 2005 he received, jointly with Robert Aumann, the Nobel Prize for economics. He has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business. His latest book is Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Martin Weitzman is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Yale University and the Mitsui Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served as a consultant to many prestigious organizations, such as The World Bank, Stanford Research Institute, and the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Weitzman has also been an associate editor for several publications, including the Journal of Comparative Economics, Economic Letters, Journal of Japanese and International Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He has published widely in many leading economics journals including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature. His research interests focus on microeconomic theory and environmental economics. His recent publications include “Prior-Sensitive Expectations and Asset-Return Puzzles,” “The Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change,” and “Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Climate Change.”
Jonathan Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and a professor of environmental and public policy at Duke University. He served as the founding faculty director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions, which has now been expanded into the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He is also a University Fellow at Resources for the Future and the president-elect of the Society for Risk Analysis. Previously, he taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He worked on U.S. and international environmental policy at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in both the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. His publications include the books Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press, 2003, with Richard B. Stewart) and Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press, 1995, with John D. Graham), and numerous journal articles.
