Speaker biographies
Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Environmental Studies at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also an adjunct fellow of the John Ashbrook Center and a former Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the AEI Press and the Pacific Research Institute. Mr. Hayward contributes to AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook series and has authored numerous books, including Greatness (Crown, 2005), The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (Crown, 2001), and Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Crown, 1998). He is the coauthor of Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks (AEI Press, 2007). Mr. Hayward has also published articles in National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and the Chicago Tribune.
Dallas Burtraw is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, where his research interests include the design of environmental regulation, the costs and benefits of environmental regulation, and the regulation and restructuring of the electricity industry. Formerly, he taught at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Burtraw has published widely on emissions and pollution controls in periodicals including Energy Policy, The Energy Journal, the Journal of Environmental Management, and The Electricity Journal. He is also a member of the Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
Indur Goklany has written extensively on the interactions between globalization, economic development, environmental quality, technological change, climate change, and human well-being. Mr. Goklany was part of the U.S. team that negotiated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an author, U.S. delegate, and reviewer. He was chief of the technical assessment division of the National Commission on Air Quality and managed the emissions trading program in the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Goklany was a visiting fellow at AEI in 2003. He is the author of several books on environmental quality, most recently The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet (Cato Institute, 2007).
Joel M. Schwartz researches air pollution, vehicle emissions, and chemical risks to the environment as a resident fellow at AEI. He was formerly in charge of the California state agency charged with evaluating the state’s vehicle emissions inspection program and making policy recommendations to the governor and the state legislature. Mr. Schwartz has also worked at RAND, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the Coalition for Clean Air. He is the author of No Way Back: Why Air Pollution Will Continue to Decline (AEI Press, 2003) and the coauthor of Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks (AEI Press, 2007).
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