Robert W. Hahn, Senior Expert

Robert Hahn is Senior Expert at Navigant Economics and Tesco Professor of Economics and Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at Manchester. He is also a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School at Oxford and a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. From 1999 to 2008, Dr. Hahn served as the Director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the innovative market-based approach for reducing acid rain. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Hahn is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times. He is also the co-founder of Regulation2point0.org. Dr. Hahn is the author of several books, among them Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Policy and Internet, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and Regulation.

Dr. Hahn has served as a consultant to government and business on a variety of issues involving benefit-cost analysis, regulation, competition, and privatization. In addition, he is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School – an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

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