Benjamin Zycher is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on energy and environmental policy.  Before joining AEI, Dr Zycher conducted a broad research program in his public policy research firm and was an intelligence community associate of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State.  He is a former senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a former adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the California State University Channel Islands and is a former senior economist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.  He served as a senior staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the first two years of the Reagan administration, with responsibility for energy and environmental policy issues.

Dr. Zycher has a doctorate in economics from UCLA, a Master in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from UCLA.

He is the author of a recent article entitled The Collapse of Offshore Wind Power Is Only the Beginning (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-world/the-collapse-of-offshore-wind-power-is-only-the-beginning).