Richard Doege Began His Environmental Career As an Economist for Price Waterhouse in Chicago

Richard L. Doege, Ph.D.

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Richard Doege is adjunct faculty in economics at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. He teaches graduate courses in economics, environmental economics, and corporate social responsibility.

Richard Doege began his career as economist for Price Waterhouse. While at Price Waterhouse, he assisted in the reorganization of the outdoor advertising industry to comply with new federal aesthetic standards. Transferring to Mexico City, he developed procedures and metrics to assure sustainable production from Mexico’s national forests. His work was published in the Journal of Accountancy. In 1976, he became an executive for Control Data Corporation, where he developed resource and energy technology for agriculture. In the 1980s, he became president of ALTCOM Corporation, a 9-state telecommunications network. Then, as vice president of Meteor Communications Corporation, he delivered environmental technology to North Africa. As a director of Pyro Industries from 1987 to 1998, he worked to develop renewable fuels and emissionless appliances for residential use. Richard has a considerable background in corporate governance and has served on boards of public and private corporations, including Industrial Funding Corporation, Bainbridge Sciences, Inc., and Panorama City Corporation.

Richard entered public service in 1998, as legislative counsel for natural resources and environment in the U.S. Congress. He drafted legislation for Superfund, endangered species, energy, conservation, forests,fisheries, and climate change.

From 2001 to 2004, Richard was affiliate fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he was co-director and a member of the national advisory board for the Harvard Regionalism Project. The project conducts research on alternative policies for land use. He was also acting director of the Institute for the Regional Community in Washington, D.C., which aims to broaden the national constituency for regional governance, and research director for the Pioneer Institute in Boston, which studies institutional reform in Massachusetts.

Richard went to college at Northwestern University and law school at Harvard. He has an M.B.A. from Kellogg School at Northwestern, an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School at Harvard, and a Ph.D. in economics from Arizona State University. He is a Northwestern University Regent.

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