Lee Alston
Through the Foundation for Teaching Economics, Professor Alston gives regular weeklong seminars to high school teachers on economic history to inform instruction in U.S. high schools. Through the Coase Institute, Professor Alston also lectures to students and young assistant professors from developing countries, providing them with tools to analyze important policy issues in their home countries.

Tania Barham
In her previous role as a World Bank consultant, Professor Barham advised the government of Yemen in the design of a project to improve the health and education of poor children. She is presently studying vaccination rates in Nicaragua for the World Bank’s human development department. California’s Department of Health Services used Professor Barham’s work on managed care and birth outcomes in their policy review of managed care.

Ann Carlos
Through the Foundation for Teaching Economics, Professor Carlos gives regular weeklong seminars to high school teachers on economic forces in American history. Over the past 10 years, these seminars have provided high school teachers with information about cutting edge research in economics that they can pass on to their students. Seminars have been held in New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Hawaii, San Antonio, and San Francisco.

Yongmin Chen
Professor Chen was invited to present his work to the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also been invited by the Swedish government to speak about oligopoly price discrimination at the Swedish Competition Authority.

Nicholas Flores
Professor Flores advises public agencies on stream restoration projects through the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics. He also serves on the advisory board for the City of Aspen’s Climate Change Impact Assessment. Additionally, Professor Flores has worked with the USDA Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Statement on public land management issues.

Phillip Graves
Through the Foundation for Teaching Economics and the Foundation for American Communications, Professor Graves has lectured on market economies in numerous places around the world (e.g., Prague, Budapest, Hanoi, and Bratislava) with a particular interest in influencing the appreciation of market economies in Eastern and Central Europe.

Michael Greenwood
As a widely recognized expert on migration, Professor Greenwood was asked to serve on the U.S. Commission for Immigration Reform. During his three years of service on the commission, he co-directed a study estimating the economic and social impacts of Mexican migration.

Frank Hsiao
Professor Hsiao has lectured on East Asian Economic Development in Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He currently serves as a consultant for the Chinese University Development Project II for the World Bank.

Jim Markusen
Professor Markusen frequently travels to Europe to present short courses on modern international trade policy and on general equilibrium modeling. An example of a recent venue is the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Markusen previously served on the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, which laid the foundations for the U.S.–Canada free-trade agreement. He also served as an advisor to Mexico’s Ministry of Trade for the NAFTA negotiations. Professor Markusen is frequently invited to speak to local groups and participate in local forums on globalization and trade policy.

Keith Maskus
International organizations and foreign governments frequently draw on Professor Maskus’s expertise on intellectual property rights and economic development. He has provided policy advice to the governments of Egypt, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, and Lebanon, among others. He has recently written reports for the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Terra McKinnish
Due to her expertise on poverty issues, Professor McKinnish was asked to serve on the board of the local food bank and recently completed her term. She was the volunteer coordinator of the local Hunger in America Survey, in which a team of food bank staff and volunteers conducted interviews with food pantry and soup kitchen clients. These interviews were combined with those conducted by other food banks across the country into a national report on hunger in America.

Robert McNown
Professor McNown has served as an expert witness on the effects of waste site proximity on residential property values. He has served as a visiting professor at several institutions abroad, including the University of Sydney (2003), Peoples’ University in Beijing, China (1989), and Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal (1979–1981), this last position as a Fulbright lecturer.

Edward Morey
Professor Morey serves as an advisor to NOAA on Natural Resource Damage Assessments. He has also helped assess the damages from the pollution injuries at a number of large Superfund sites. This work has contributed to cleaning up contaminated rivers in Montana, the Bay of Green Bay, and, he hopes in the future, the Hudson River.

Barry Poulson
Professor Poulson serves on the Colorado Commission on Taxation and was recently appointed to a state commission to evaluate the state’s retirement plan. He has been extremely active in economics education in the state of Colorado. He consults with the Colorado Council on Economic Education and is Director of the Center for Economic Education in Boulder. He has taught seminars on economic education to Colorado’s public school teachers for more than 30 years and has partnered with State Treasurer Mike Coffman to discuss state-related economic issues with Colorado teachers.

Scott Savage
Professor Savage was curriculum development advisor to NetTel@Africa— a consortium of southern African countries developing knowledge in information and telecommunications policy and regulation. He recently traveled to Botswana and Tanzania to advise academics, engineers, and policy makers on recent developments in regulatory policy and education.

Donald M.Waldman
Working with the EPA and the U.S. Weather Service, Professor Waldman uses his expertise in statistical modeling to measure the value of environmental quality and better weather forecasts. He has volunteered his time doing survey research for the Boulder chapter of the Association for Community Living, an organization dedicated to providing services that promote dignified community living for people with developmental disabilities.

Randall Walsh
Professor Walsh has been invited by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in Boston to discuss open space policy with town planners. He has also advised local planners in North Carolina.

Jeffrey Zax
Professor Zax has been tapped by the Colorado Department of Transportation to analyze crash and citation statistics for the state, for the purpose of advising the state on its traffic safety programs. Professor Zax has previously advised Colorado’s Departments of Human Services and Labor and the Attorney General’s Office. He is a regular contributor to state discussions on economics issues, writing three op-ed pieces for the Denver Post in the past two years.