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Dr. Raymond J. KOPP
Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA

Dr. Raymond J. Kopp Director, Climate Policy Program Resources for the Future (RFF) 1616 P Street NW 20023 Washington DC USA Tel: +1 202 328 5059 Fax: +1-202 939 3460 E-mail: kopp@rff.org Url: http://www.rff.org/Kopp.cfm

Kopp holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in economics and an undergraduate degree in finance.  He has been a member of the RFF research staff since 1977 and has held a variety of management positions within the institution.
Kopp's interest in environmental policy began in the late 1970s, when he developed techniques to measure the effect of pollution control regulations on the economic efficiency of steam electric power generation. He then led the first examination of the cost of major U.S. environmental regulations in a full, general equilibrium, dynamic context by using an approach that is now widely accepted as state-of-the-art in cost-benefit analysis.
During his career Kopp has specialized in the analysis of environmental and natural resource issues with a focus on Federal regulatory activity. He is an expert in techniques of assigning value to environmental and natural resources that do not have market prices, which is fundamental to cost-benefit analysis and the assessment of damages to natural resources.
Kopp's current research interests focus on the design of domestic and international polices to combat climate change.