Sharie joined PERC in the fall of 2006 and works in the front office. She was raised in Great Falls, Montana, and attended Montana State University in Bozeman, before marrying Randy Rucker, another native Montanan. Randy is a professor at Montana State University in the Department of Agriculture Economics and Economics. They have three children.Continue reading “Sharie Rucker”
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G. Tracy Mehan III
G. Tracy Mehan, III is the Executive Director of Government Affairs for the American Water Works Association. He is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He was Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001–2003. He was a consultantContinue reading “G. Tracy Mehan III”
D. Bruce Johnsen
D. Bruce Johnsen is a Professor of Law at George Mason University, a leading center for Law & Economics scholarship. Professor Johnsen holds a B.A, an M.A., and a Ph.D., all in Economics, from the University of Washington, as well as a J.D. from Emory University. His scholarship focuses on the economics of property rights,Continue reading “D. Bruce Johnsen”
Sam Nugent
Samuel S. Nugent is the Marketing Coordinator for Wilder Auto Center Port Angeles. He previously served as the co-founder and Director of Marketing for The Remediators Inc., a soils remediation company located in Port Angeles, Wash. Nugent was a 2003 fellow of PERC’s environmental entrepreneurship course. The Remediators Inc, is a member of the IncubatorContinue reading “Sam Nugent”
James Workman
James Workman creates natural resource conservation markets for water, energy and marine life. He wrote the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, and Sea Change: The Quiet Revolution Transforming Life Offshore–and On (ForeEdge). Workman studied at Yale & Oxford, taught at Wesleyan and Whitman, butContinue reading “James Workman”
Vernon L. Smith
VERNON L. SMITH was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in experimental economics. Smith is a professor of economics and law at George Mason University, and research scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science.
Fred Krupp
FRED KRUPP is president of Environmental Defense, a national nonprofit organization that links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. Visit www.environmentaldefense.
Elizabeth Willott
Elizabeth Willott is assistant professor of entomology and program faculty member for the graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Insect Science at the University of Arizona.
Robert Deacon
Robert T. Deacon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University Fellow at Resources for the Future. He has examined a broad range of topics in natural resource economics and political economy. His recent work focuses on the use of alternative property rights institutions to manage fisheries. Deacon receivedContinue reading “Robert Deacon”
Jack Ward Thomas
Jack Ward Thomas, Ph.D., is Chief Emeritus of the U.S. Forest Service and Professor Emeritus of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Montana.