David A. Keiser, PhD
Expert
Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Yale University
M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia
B.A. in Mathematics and Religious Studies, University of Virginia
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Dr. David Keiser is a Professor in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Yale University, an M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Georgia, and a B.A. in Mathematics and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. He currently serves as a chartered member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Keiser is an environmental economist with a focus on the economics of water resources. His work covers a wide-range of topics, including non-market valuation, damage estimation, and policy evaluation. His research has been published in leading economic and science journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, among others. His work has been cited in Congressional testimony, incorporated in graduate training at leading universities, appeared in major news outlets, and has received over 1,000 citations. He is a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on approximately $7.9 million in federal and state grants. Dr. Keiser also co-leads a national annual workshop on the Social Costs of Water Pollution.
Dr. Keiser serves as a Features co-editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, a flagship journal for environmental economists and one of the top overall economics journals by impact factor. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Land Economics and regularly serves as a peer reviewer at top science and economic journals. In his role on the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board, he has reviewed and commented on a wide-range of topics from greenhouse gas regulations to drinking water rules. Dr. Keiser has engaged as an expert witness and consultant on a number of issues related to drinking and surface water pollution. He has served as an expert witness on the impacts of drinking water contamination in Flint, MI. He has also advised economists at the Central Bank of Brazil on economic damage estimates from a large mining disaster, worked with legal scholars to analyze the 2020 Steam Electric Reconsideration Rule, and co-chaired an independent review of the Navigation Waters Protection Rule for an external environmental economics advisory committee.