Ben was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Economics Department at the University of Virginia. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly in environmental and public economics. His dissertation research is primarily focused understanding the consequences of environmental and economic policy on land use and environmental quality. BenContinue reading “Ben Chenault”
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Nathaniel Grimes
Nathaniel Grimes was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science and Management at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. His research seeks to close the conservation funding gap in the ocean through the design of new financial tools and investments. Together, through these conservation financing options, Nathaniel hopesContinue reading “Nathaniel Grimes”
Joshua Abbott
Joshua Abbott was a 2022 Julian Simon fellow and is a Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the School of Sustainability and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Economics and the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy at Arizona State University. His research focuses on natural resource management and sustainable developmentContinue reading “Joshua Abbott”
Nicole Karwowski
Nicole is an assistant professor at Montana State University in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics. She was a 2022 PERC graduate fellow and earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics as well as environmental, natural resource, and agricultural economics. She isContinue reading “Nicole Karwowski”
Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Thompson is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and is the principal investigator for the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and involving more than 100 scientists and students investigating the dynamics of the New England landscape. He also leads the New England Landscape Futures project,Continue reading “Jonathan Thompson”
Charles Kenny
Charles Kenny was a 2022 Julian Simon fellow and is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. His current work focuses on global economic prospects, gender and development, and development finance. He is the author of the books “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease,” “Getting Better: Why GlobalContinue reading “Charles Kenny”
Lee Anne Fennell
Lee Fennell was a 2022 Julian Simon fellow and is the Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she has taught since 2007. Her teaching and research interests include property, torts, land use, housing, social welfare law, state and local government law, and public finance. She is the authorContinue reading “Lee Anne Fennell”
Senator Steve Daines
Sen. Steve Daines represents Montana in the U.S. Senate.
Brian Garber-Yonts
Brian Garber-Yonts is a research economist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska Fishery Science Center.
Jennifer Morales
Jennifer is a Research Associate focusing on environmental policy at the Center for Growth and Opportunity and Utah State University. She researches and writes about how policy can help us all be better stewards of the environment. Jennifer will graduate in 2021 with her MS in Economics with a certificate in Anticipatory Intelligence. She graduatedContinue reading “Jennifer Morales”