About the Authors

U.S. Market Consequences of Global Climate Change

Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University

Dale W. Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. At Harvard, he has directed the Program on Technology and Economic Policy at the Kennedy School of Government since 1984 and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997. He holds a BA in economics from
Reed College in Portland, Oregon,  and a PhD in
economics from Harvard University.

Professor Jorgenson has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. He is the author of 232 articles in economics and the author and editor of twenty-four books. His collected papers have been published in ten volumes by The MIT Press, beginning in 1995.

Professor Jorgenson served as President of the American Economic Association in 2000 and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association in 2001. He was a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 1998. He also served as Chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and was President of the Econometric Society in 1987.  Jorgenson received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971. This Medal is awarded every two years to an economist under forty for excellence in economic research.

Richard J. Goettle, Northeastern University

Richard J. Goettle is a Professor and Lecturer in the Finance and Insurance Group in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. Dr. Goettle holds a BA in mathematics and computer science from Miami University, an MBA from Northwestern University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Goettle is the president, co-founder and principal of Cambridge Planning and Analytics Inc., developer and marketer of Datadisk Information Services. He also serves as a senior economist with Dale W. Jorgenson Associates and was with the National Center for Analysis of Energy Systems at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has written extensively on the general equilibrium consequences of U.S. energy, environmental and tax policies. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Western Economic Association.

Brian H. Hurd, New Mexico State University

Brian H. Hurd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University. Dr. Hurd earned his PhD and MS degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis, and holds a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
 
Dr. Hurd is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and conference presentations on natural and environmental resource economics, water resource economics, and climate change vulnerability and adaptation. He is a delegate to the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR), and is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the American Water Resources Association, and the Western Agricultural Economics Association. 

Joel B. Smith, Stratus Consulting Inc.

Joel B. Smith is the Vice President of Stratus Consulting Inc. Mr. Smith received a BA from Williams College, and received an MPP from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Smith has examined climate change impacts and adaptation issues for the U.S. Country Studies Program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Electric Power Research Institute, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Before joining Stratus Consulting, Mr. Smith was the deputy director of the U.S. EPA's Climate Change Division. He was a coeditor of EPA's Report to Congress: The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States, published in 1989; As Climate Changes: International Impacts and Implications, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995; Adaptation to Climate Change: Assessments and Issues, published by Springer-Verlag in 1996; and Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Development published by Imperial College Press in 2003. Mr. Smith worked for the EPA from 1984 to 1992. Besides working on climate change issues, he also served as an analyst examining oceans and water regulations, and was a special assistant to the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation.

Lauraine G. Chestnut, Stratus Consulting Inc.

Lauraine G. Chestnut is a Managing Economist with Stratus Consulting Inc. She holds an MA in economics from the University of Colorado and a BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Earlham College.

Ms. Chestnut specializes in environmental and natural resource economics, risk assessment and survey research, focusing on the economic valuation of human health, visibility, and other welfare effects of environmental pollutants. She has published three books as well as several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Land Economics, Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Archives of Environmental Health, and Journal of Forensic Economics. Ms. Chestnut was recently appointed to a two-year term on EPA’s Science Advisory Board’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. She was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

David M. Mills, Stratus Consulting Inc.

David M Mills is a Senior Associate with Stratus Consulting Inc.  He holds a BA in Economics from Colby College and an MA in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Mr. Mills is an environmental economist with expertise in quantifying and valuing human health and welfare impacts. He has reviewed and synthesized available epidemiological and economic valuations of air pollution-related health impacts and has contributed to the development of cumulative uncertainty models for the United States and Canada that are used to conduct benefits analyses of air pollution control scenarios. Mr. Mills has also developed cost of illness estimates for health conditions such as asthma and childhood cancer and completed national assessments of the burden of various health conditions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.