Ted Gayer

Professor Gayer is co-director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. He applies a combination of statistical expertise and policy experience to environmental and energy-related issues.

Previously, Dr. Gayer was an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown University. He also served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (where his portfolio was focused on environmental policy) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department of the Treasury (where his portfolio covered a wide range of microeconomic issues related to the environment, climate change, energy, health care, Social Security, housing markets, credit markets, and insurance markets). Professor Gayer has served on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Science Advisory Board and on the EPA's Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee. He was also a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Professor Gayer's areas of policy expertise include Superfund, the Clean Air Act, New Source Review, climate change, carbon offset markets, mercury regulation, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides regulation, fuel economy standards, renewable fuel standards, and the Endangered Species Act. His technical areas of expertise include econometrics, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk assessment and valuation, and the design of market-based environmental policies.