Nicholas Institute Staff

Brian Murray
Brian Murray, PhD, joined the Nicholas Institute in March 2006 as Director for Economic Analysis.  Before that, he was Director of the Center for Regulatory Economics and Policy Research at RTI International. He specializes in developing and applying economic models to analyze environmental and natural resource policies, programs, and regulations. He is a widely recognized expert in the integration of economic and biophysical models to assess greenhouse gas mitigation strategies in agriculture, land use change, and forestry. In pollution control, he has examined the economic effects of traditional command-based regulatory strategies and more market-oriented approaches such as emissions fees. Dr. Murray's work has been published extensively in professional journals, edited book volumes, and commissioned reports. He has been invited as a co-author of several national and international assessments of forest resources, especially related to climate change. He received his Ph.D in resource economics from Duke in 1992.
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