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Biographies Maureen L. Cropper is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, a Lead Economist at the World Bank and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. She is past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and a former chair of the Advisory Council for Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis, a subcommittee of EPA's Science Advisory Board. Ms. Crooper’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 factors affecting deforestation in developing countries and on the externalities associated with motorization. Robert Hahn is the Executive Director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. Previously, he worked for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Science and the Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective, editor of Government Policy toward Open Source Software, and editor of High-Stakes Antitrust (forthcoming 2003, AEI-Brookings Joint Center). In addition, Mr. Hahn is 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. Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Georgetown, Ms. Heinzerling clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court and served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, specializing in environmental law. She has also been a visiting professor at the Yale and Harvard law schools. Ms. Heinzerling is Vice-President of the Center for Progressive Regulation, a newly formed think tank dedicated to making the positive case for health, safety, and environmental protection. Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. He is author of many books, including Risk and Reason (2002), After the Rights Revolution (1990), and Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), recent winner of Harvard Law School's Henderson Prize for the best book in the last five years "dealing with administrative law or other legal problems affecting government." His newest book, Why Societies Need Dissent, is coming in September from Harvard Press. Professor Sunstein has frequently worked with members of Congress and the executive branch on issues of risk regulation. |
