Dr. Jason Scorse
CBE Director & Lead Non-market Economist

Jason Scorse received his PhD in Environmental Economics & Policy at UC-Berkeley under Michael Hanemann and Ann Harrison. He is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the International Environmental Policy Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Professor Scorse is also the Director of the Center for the Blue Economy, the parent program of the NOEP.

Dr. Scorse has published articles in American Economic Review, California Management Review, and for books published by the Brookings Institution and Routledge Press. His book, What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics, was released in 2010. Professor Scorse also sits on the board of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Research Activities Panel and The Otter Project.

Dr. Scorse's CV

Dr. Judith T. Kildow
Director of NOEP

Dr. Judith Kildow is founder and Director of the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) (www.OceanEconomics.org) at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). She is also adjunct professor at California State University at Monterey Bay, serves on several boards, and is a private consultant. Her field bridges science and policy, identifying how economic activities and ocean changes affect each other. She spent 25+ years as a professor at MIT, tenured in the Department of Ocean Engineering, was Senior Social Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, James W. Rote Distinguished Professor, California State University Monterey Bay, Research Faculty/Senior Fellow at Harvard University, University of Southern California and University of Vermont.

Dr. Kildow has a Ph.D. in International Relations and Science Policy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She has served on National Academy of Sciences boards and committees, federal, state, corporate and editorial boards, and has published widely in the field of ocean policy and economics. She currently resides in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with her husband and dog Lily.

Dr. Kildow's CV

Dr. Charles S. Colgan
Lead Market Economist

Charles S. Colgan is a consultant with the NOEP. He is a Professor of Public Policy and Management in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Colgan is the Chair of the Muskie School’s PhD Program in Public Policy and is a Senior Research Associate in the USM Center for Business and Economic Research. His long term economic forecasts are used by the Maine Department of Transportation and the Economic Development Districts of Maine.

Prior to joining the University of Southern Maine, he served in the Maine State Planning Office, was State Economist, and Director of Natural Resource and Economic Policy. He received his B.A.from Colby College and received his Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Maine.

updated 5-Jan-2012