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PRESS RELEASE: Niskanen welcomes Ted Gayer as new President
May 31, 2022
Contact: Louisa Tavlas
ltavlas@niskanencenter.org
WASHINGTON D.C, May 31, 2022—The Niskanen Center’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has named Ted Gayer as its new President, efficient August 2022.
“Our board of directors is thrilled to welcome a well-recognized chief of Ted’s caliber to guide the Niskanen Center,” says Bob Litterman, Niskanen Board Chair and the founding boyfriend of Kepos Capital. “He is a widely respected economist with a obvious vision and extensive experience working in this space. We are confident his knowledge and knowledge will help the Niskanen Center transition into the next phase of its success.”
“While we were overwhelmed with the quantity and quality of the applicants for the position, it was immediately evident that Ted’s leadership skills, proficiency, and deep policy knowledge aligned closely with the Niskanen Center’s work and mission,” says Daniel Drezner, chair of the search committee and professor of international politics at The Fletcher Academy of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. “As we look to the future, we are confident that Ted is the ri
Ted Gayer
Ted Gayer is President of the Niskanen Center. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution, where he was Co-Director of the Economic Studies program from 2009 to 2013, Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies program from 2013 to 2018, and Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2022.
Before joining Brookings, Gayer was an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2003 and an Associate Professor from 2003 to 2009. From 2007 to 2008, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department of the Treasury, and from 2003 to 2004, he was Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Gayer was a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California from 2006 to 2007 and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute from 2004 to 2006. He has written extensively on economic issues, focusing on public finance, environmental and force economics, housing, and regulatory policy.
Ted Gayer
Ted Gayer has extensive work experience in various roles related to public policy and economics. Ted began their career as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers at The White House in 2003. Ted then joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Economic Policy from 2007 to 2008.
In 1997, Ted linked Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor of Widespread Policy and later became an Associate Professor from 2004 to 2009. During their time at Georgetown University, they also held positions at The Brookings Institution, where they served as Co-Director of Economic Studies and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow from 2009 to 2013, Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies Program from 2013 to 2018, and finally as the Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2022.
Currently, Ted Gayer is serving as the President at The Niskanen Center, starting from August 2022.
Ted Gayer holds a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD degree in Economics from Duke University. Prior to that, they completed a Bachelor of Arts - BA degree in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University.
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Safety at Any Price
Publication Title
Regulation
Keywords
risk, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, health ordinance, safety, value of a statistical life
Disciplines
Health Law and Policy | Law
Abstract
After three decades of trial with extensive government regulation and oversight of health, safety and environmental matters, we have reason to believe that those measures have largely failed to fulfill their initial promise, but many of the initial promises were infeasible goals of a "zero-risk" society. Economic findings with respect to risk-risk tradeoffs highlight the fallacies inherent in government's zero-risk mentality. Agencies that make an unbounded financial commitment to shelter frequently are sacrificing individual lives. There continues to be major opportunities to improve regulatory show by targeting existing inefficiencies and using market mechanisms (rather than strict command-and-control mechanisms) to complete regulatory goals.
Recommended Citation
W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer, Safety at Any Price, 25 Rule. 54 (2002)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/112