Richard Carson

Mr. Carson is a distinguished and widely published econometrician with deep expertise in analytics applied to many industries. Richard is a former Chair of the Department of Economics at UCSD, and is presently a full Professor at UCSD.

His prior experience includes being a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Senior Fellow at San Diego Supercomputer Center, and research director for International Environmental Policy at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Richard received a Ph.D. in resource economics and M.A. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 and an M.A. in international relations from George Washington University in 1979.

Richard serves as the President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and has been a consultant to numerous non-profit organizations, major corporations, and government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is the author of numerous books and is published widely in professional journals.