Ted Gayer is an associate professor at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. His research is focused on environmental economics, such as cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk assessment and valuation, and the design of market-based environmental policies. His policy areas of expertise include Superfund, the Clean Air Act, New Source Review, climate change, mercury regulation, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides regulation, fuel economy standards, renewable fuel standards, and the Endangered Species Act. He has also researched education policy and the history of economics. His work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Science, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Regulation, and other journals. He has also co-edited (with W. Kip Viscusi) the two-volume Classics in Risk Management and has co-authored (with Harvey Rosen) the textbook Public Finance, 8th edition.

From 1999 to 2001, Professor Gayer was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. In the summer of 2006 he was a Lone Mountain Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, and from 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the Department of the Treasury and as a Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is also a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board and has served on the EPA’s Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee and as an expert evaluator of the natural resources management indicator for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Professor Gayer obtained a bachelor of arts with High Honors from Emory University in 1992, where he majored in mathematics and economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 1997, where he was a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.