J.R. DeSHAZO, University of California-Los Angeles
I look forward to the opportunity to serve APPAM through its Policy Council. I recently served as on a similarly body for Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. I am a professor in the School of Public Affairs where I have engaged in a mix of research and policy advising. My research focuses on institutional reform, environmental economics and public finance. As a policy advisor I have worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, United Nation, the World Bank, US AID, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the US Geological Survey. I have also worked in countries including Canada, Thailand, Romania, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Previously, I was a faculty associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development. I hold a B.A. in economics/history from the College of William and Mary, a M.Sc. in development economics from Oxford University, where I was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Harvard University.