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Biographies
Don Clay is vice president of environmental and regulatory affairs for the Koch Petroleum Group. Prior to joining Koch, Mr. Clay was president of Don Clay Associates, Inc., a public policy consulting firm devoted to solid and hazardous waste issues. From 1989 to 1993, he was the assistant administrator in the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response at the Environmental Protection Agency. During that time, he implemented reforms such as the Superfund Revitalization Initiative and Accelerated Cleanup Model and launched a series of initiatives under RCRA on corrective action and the definition of solid waste. Mr. Clay has also led the Office of Air and Radiation and acted as assistant administrator of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Before joining the EPA, he held senior positions at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, and in private industry.
Robert Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. He previously served as a senior staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers for two years. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, and Yale Law Journal. He has been a consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues involving regulation and privatization. In addition, Mr. Hahn is the 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.
James T. Hamilton is an associate professor of public policy, economics, and political science at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. His research on environmental policy focuses on the effficacy of hazardous waste cleanups, the provision of information about pollution through the Toxics Release Inventory program, and environmental justice. His most recent books are Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (Princeton University Press, 1998) and (with Kip Viscusi) Calculating Risks: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy (MIT Press, 1999).
John Hird is the director and an associate professor of political science at the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to coming to Amherst, he served at the Brookings Institution and the Council of Economic Advisers. His books include Controversies in American Public Policy (1999) and Superfund: The Political Economy of Environmental Risk (1994), and he has published articles in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Yale Journal on Regulation, Social Science Quarterly, and other professional journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and Polity, and is the first recipient of the Mills Award from the Policy Studies Organization for an outstanding contributor to policy studies under age 35.
W. Kip Viscusi is the John F. Cogan, Jr., Professor of Law and Economics and director of the Program on Empirical Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He has published widely on different aspects of health and safety risks. He has consulted to the Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Justice on issues pertaining to the valuation of life and health. He currently serves on the Science Advisory Board of the EPA. He has been a professor of economics at Duke University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, and he was deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Carter White House. Mr. Viscusi is the founding editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and serves on the editorial boards of seven other journals, including the American Economic Review. He has received numerous awards for his work over the years.
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