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NBER: AERE Elections 2013
EEE Program Colleagues,
Since many of you are members of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, I'd like to provide a reminder that this year's online election of AERE officers and board members is underway. The deadline to vote is December 1, 2013. AERE members should have received an email with details on electronic voting (although I have heard that some emails appear to have been trapped by spam filters), and I understand that a reminder email will go out to AERE members this month. For your information, the slate of candidates and the biographical sketches distributed in the initial email are pasted below.
Best,
Joe Aldy
Joseph E. Aldy
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Taubman 382, Mailbox 57
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
V: 617-496-7213
E: joseph_aldy_at_hks.harvard.edu
I: www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jaldy/<http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jaldy/>
Nonresident Fellow
Resources for the Future
I: http://www.rff.org/aldy.cfm
Faculty Research Fellow
National Bureau of Economic Research
I: http://www.nber.org/people/joseph_aldy
The slate of candidates is:
For President-Elect: (vote for one)
1.W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz
2.Robert N. Stavins
For Vice President: (vote for one)
1.Paul J. Ferraro
2.Richard G. Newell
For Board of Directors: (vote for two)
1.Antonio M. Bento
2.Richard D. Horan
3.Gilbert E. Metcalf
4.Wolfram Schlenker
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AERE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT, VICE PRESIDENT AND BOARD
FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT:
Dr. W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz – University of Alberta, Canada
Vic Adamowicz is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta. He served as Vice-President of AERE in 2010-11, represented AERE on the committee to select the site of the Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, served on the AERE Board of Directors in 2003-4 and most recently was the co-chair of the Third AERE Summer Conference held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM)and serves on the editorial board of three other journals of natural resource, environmental and agricultural economics.
Adamowicz’s research has focused on the valuation of environmental amenities and ecosystem services and the incorporation of environmental quality into economic analysis and policy – with applications to forestry, water quality, air quality, endangered species and agriculture. His research also involves the analysis of choice behavior with applications to food demand, recreation, and environmental quality. He has served on various panels and advisory boards including the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) and the Ecosystem Science and Management Working Group of NOAA. His research has been published in JEEM, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Consumer Research, Land Economics, and other journals. His PhD is from the University of Minnesota, and MSc and BSc from the University ofAlberta.
Robert N. Stavins – Harvard University
Rob Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and member of numerous editorial and advisory boards. He was formerly: member, Board of Directors, Resources for the Future; member, Scientific Advisory Board, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; and chairman, U.S. EPA Environmental Economics Advisory Committee. He was Lead Author, Second and Third Assessment Reports, and is Coordinating Leading Author, Fifth Assessment Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard (1988). After college, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa, and later worked for the Environmental Defense Fund in California. Stavins’ AERE service has included: member, Board of Directors (1996-1998); member and chair, Workshop Committee(1996-1999); member, Editorial Council, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) (1996-2004); and Founding Editor (2006-2009) and Co-Editor (2010-present), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He was elected a Fellow of the Association in 2009.
Stavins' research has examined diverse areas of environmental economics and policy, and has appeared in more than 100 articles in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, JEEM, Science, Nature, and many other scholarly and popular periodicals. He is the author or editor ofn ine books, including two volumes of his selected papers, and writes a regular magazine column, as well as an Internet blog with an international following. For over 25 years, Stavins has worked closely with the White House, EPA, other Federal departments and agencies, members of Congress, multilateral organizations, and governments around the world to develop better environmental and resource policies.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Paul J. Ferraro – Georgia State University
Paul Ferraro is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He received a PhD in applied economics from Cornell University (2001) and, from Duke University, a BA in biology and history (1990) and an MS in environmental economics (1994). He is a Senior Science Fellow with the World Wildlife Fund(2006-present), serves on a wide range of advisory and editorial boards, and has served as one of five Science Advisors to the Global Environment Facility (2006-2009), the Kathyrn S. Fuller Science for Nature Visiting Scientist (2007-2010), and a Fulbright Scholar at the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (2012).
Ferraro is a former AERE board member (2010- 2012). His research emphasizes the design and empirical evaluation of environmental policies and programs. He and co-authors have published in a variety of fields, including economics (e.g., AER P&P, JEEM, JPubE, ReStat), political science (Am Jrnal of Pol Sci), and interdisciplinary sciences (e.g., Cons Bio PNAS, Science), and their work has been reported on in popular media including The New York Times, National Public Radio, and Science magazine. He and co-authors received the National Academy of Sciences 2011 Cozzarelli Prize for a PNAS publication of "outstanding scientific excellence and originality.” See http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwcec/ for more details.
Richard G. Newell – Duke University
Richard Newell is the Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, and Director of the Duke University Energy Initiative. In 2009 he was confirmed by the Senate as the head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the agency responsible for official U.S. government energy statistics and analysis, where he served until 2011. Newell has also served as the Senior Economist for energy and environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is on the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, where he was previously a Senior Fellow and then University Fellow. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has provided expert advice and consulted with many private, governmental, non-governmental, and international institutions. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and previously served on the AERE Board from 2008-2009 and on the Editorial Council of JEEM from 2007-2009.
Newell has published widely on the economics of markets and policies for energy, the environment, and related technologies, including issues related to market-based environmental policy, incentives for technological innovation and adoption, energy efficiency, and discounting. His work has been published in JEEM, REEP, QJE, JEL, AJAE, J. Industrial Economics, Energy J., Resource and Energy Economics, Environment and Resource Economics, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and other scholarly journals and books. He has served on numerous boards and National Academy of Science (NAS) expert committees related to energy, environment, and innovation, including the NAS committees on Energy R&D, Innovation Inducement Prizes, Energy Externalities, and Energy Efficiency. Newell holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Antonio M. Bento – Cornell University
Antonio Bento is an Associate Professor at Cornell’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He received a BA from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Portugal) in 1996, and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland in 2000. He previously taught at the University ofC alifornia, Santa Barbara (2000-2004), the University of Maryland (2004-2007), and has been a visiting research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a consultant to the World Bank.
On behalf of AERE, Bento is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, member of the AERE Program Committee (2012-2014, Chair in 2014), and helped organize the Second Annual AERE Summer Conference in Asheville, NC (2012), contributing to the establishment of the graduate students’ featured sessions.
Bento contributed to the New York State Climate Change Action Plan, the New York Biofuels Roadmap, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Assessment Report on Biofuels, and he is currently a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.
Bento’s research is at the interface of environmental and urban economics, and includes topics related to the economics of urban sprawl, congestion pricing, the effectiveness of local air quality regulations, the economics of biofuels and renewable energy, climate mitigation in cities, and the distributional impacts of policies aimed at reducing fuel consumption and the various externalities generated by the transportation sector. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Urban Economics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and other scholarly journals and books.
Richard D. Horan – Michigan State University
Rick Horan is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to joining the faculty at MSU in 2000, he worked for several years in the Environmental Policy Branch of the Economic Research Service, USDA. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics andMathematics from Appalachian State University (1993), and an M.A. in Economics (1995) and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (1997) from Penn State University. Horan is currently co-editor of Resource and Energy Economics (term: 2011 – 2013) and has served in previous years as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource Modeling, and on the editorial boards of two other journals.
Horan’s research has focused on the bioeconomics of species conservation and the management of invasive species and pathogens, and on the design of water quality policies that address nonpoint source pollution. His research has been funded by grants from USDA, NIH, and NOAA, and has appeared in field journals such as JEEM, ERE, AJAE, REE, and Ecological Economics, in general economics journals such as AER, Journal of Economic Growth, and JEBO, and general interdisciplinary journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecological Applications, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Resources Research. The results of his research have been discussed in The Economist, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Gilbert E. Metcalf – Tufts University
Gib Metcalf is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University. Previously, Metcalf was on the faculty at Princeton University. He holds a BA in mathematics from Amherst College, an MS in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. In 2011-2012 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where he oversaw Treasury’s activities in international environmental and climate organizations and participated in the annual COP climate negotiations focusing on climate finance.
Metcalf served as a member of a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee evaluating the social costs of energy production and consumption (Hidden Costs of Energy, published by the NAS in 2010), has testified before various Congressional committees on energy and climate issues, and has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The American Economic Review, and the Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy. He served on the Program Committee for the 2011 AERE summer conference held in Seattle.
Metcalf has published widely in the areas of environmental policy design, second-best environmental taxation, carbon taxation, energy efficiency, energy taxation, and energy subsidies among other topics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Public Economics, and the Economic Journal, among other scholarly journals and books.
Wolfram Schlenker – Columbia University
Wolfram Schlenker is an Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He previously was an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California at San Diego. He was the Cargill Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, and Visiting Scholar at the Princeton Environmental Institute and Department of Economics.
He received a Master in Engineering and Management Science (Diplom in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
His research focuses on environmental and resource economics as well as applied econometrics. He has studied, among other things, the effect of weather and climate on agricultural yield, how climate trends and the US biofuel mandate influences agricultural commodity prices, and how pollution impacts both agricultural yields and human morbidity. His work appeared in both economic journals (American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics) and natural science journals (Nature, Science, PNAS).
Received on Fri Nov 01 2013 - 15:04:56 EDT
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