Mr. Montgomery was a panelist for the Forum’s discussion on Smog or Jobs?
W. David Montgomery is Senior Vice President of NERA Economic Consulting in Washington D.C. His recent work includes studies of Green Jobs and the costs and benefits of Clean Air Act regulations and testimony on these issues before Committees of the U.S. Congress. He was assistant director of the Congressional Budget Office, deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy, and he taught economics at CalTech and Stanford. He has a PhD in economics from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge. He received the AERE’s 2005 award for a “Publication of Enduring Quality” for his work on emission trading.