Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D.

Benjamin Zycher is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Research in Economics Education, a member of the academic advisory board of the quarterly journal Regulation, and a contributor to The Hill. He has broad expertise in a number of public policy areas, with energy and environment policy a particular specialty.

Formerly he was an associate in the Intelligence Community Associates program of the Office of Economic Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State; a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; a senior economist at the RAND Corporation; a member of the Board of Directors of the Western Economic Association International; an adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles; an adjunct professor of economics and business at the California State University, Channel Islands; a senior economist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute; vice president for research at the Milken Institute; the founding editor of the quarterly public policy journal Jobs & Capital; and a senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a naturalized citizen of the United States, married with two children, and lives in Long Beach, Washington