Alex Brill is a research fellow at AEI. Prior to joining AEI in 2007, he served for five years on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, where he was chief economist and senior adviser to the chairman. In this capacity, he led the staff in work on major tax, pension, trade, and health legislation and oversaw efforts to expand the analytical capability of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s revenue-estimating process. In addition to providing legislative and policy counsel to the chairman, Mr. Brill advised committee members about the effects of various tax, trade, health, and Social Security proposals and general economic trends. Prior to his work for the committee, he served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Brill began his career in Washington as a research assistant at AEI. He has written on a variety of tax policy issues.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California’s Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia’s Fraser Institute.

Skip Laitner is the director of economic and social analysis for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). He previously served as a senior economist for technology policy for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has taught economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Mr. Laitner has written over two hundred papers and reports in the fields of community and economic development, decision sciences, energy and utility costs, and natural resource issues. Recently, he has published a number of papers on energy policy, including several with the ACEEE and one in the Handbook on Input-Output Economics for Industrial Ecology (Springer, 2009).

Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and the codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. He has written several books on labor economics, the most recent of which is A Measure of Fairness: the Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2008). He also produced several monographs with the Center for American Progress and Economic Policy Institute. Mr. Pollin has also written extensively on labor for both scholarly and popular publications, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Los Angeles Times. 

Anne E. Smith is the vice president and practice leader of climate and sustainability at CRA International. She specializes in market impact analysis, risk management, and integrated policy assessment, and has gained particular recognition for her contributions on the design and performance of emissions trading programs. Ms. Smith’s clients have included research institutions, trade associations, private corporations, multistakeholder organizations, and governments. Previously, Ms. Smith was a vice president at Decision Focus Incorporated, leading the company’s policy analysis practice. She has also served as an economist in the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.