Speaker Biographies

Roger Bate is a resident fellow at AEI who writes extensively on topics such as health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries (malaria and HIV/AIDS); water policy; international environmental and health agreements (industrial chemicals, climate change, and water); and genetically modified organisms and pesticide policy. Mr. Bate’s writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economic Affairs, and he regularly contributes to AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook series. He is the editor of What Risk: Science Politics and Public Health (Butterworth Heinemann, 1997). Before joining AEI, Mr. Bate founded the Environmental Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1993 and co-founded the European Science and Environment Forum in 1995. He has also served as both a director and fellow at the International Policy Network in the United Kingdom.

Andrew Morriss is the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Mr. Morriss joined the faculty at Case Western in 1992, where he teaches property, business associations, and corporate governance. Prior to joining Case Western, Mr. Morriss clerked for U.S. district judge Barefoot Sanders (Northern District, Texas) and spent two years with Texas Rural Legal Aid. He is a prolific writer, with recent articles published in Supreme Court Economic Review, Administrative Law Review, and New York University Journal of Law and Liberty. Mr. Morriss is a contributing editor to Ideas on Liberty (Foundation for Economic Education). He coedited The Common Law and the Environment with Roger Meiners (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999).

Kendra Okonski is the director of the environment program at the International Policy Network (IPN), a London-based think tank, where she has worked since 2001. She is the editor or co-editor of several publications, including Environment and Health (IPN Press, 2004) and Adapt or Die (IPN Press, 2003), and an edition of the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environment. She is also the author of Montana: On the Verge of Collapse? (Property and Environment Research Center, 2006). She frequently contributes to print and broadcast media on issues such as development and the environment. She is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a council member of the University of Buckingham. Prior to joining IPN, she worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank, as a researcher to its president.

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