Biography
Lisa A. Robinson is an independent consultant who specializes in the economic analysis of environmental, health, and safety policies and regulations. For the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other organizations, she has led numerous assessments of the costs, benefits, and other impacts of policy options, developed related methods, and drafted guidance documents. She has extensive experience in evaluating scholarly research and applying it to complex policy problems, and in developing models to estimate costs and benefits.
Ms. Robinson’s recent work focuses on the conduct of benefit-cost analysis, particularly for policies with outcomes that cannot be fully valued using market measures. For example, she co-edited the book, Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (National Academies Press, 2006), and developed approaches for estimating the value of mortality risk reductions (the value per statistical life, or VSL) for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the World Bank. She also explored the implications of behavioral economics for the MacArthur Foundation's project on Principles and Standards for Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Ms. Robinson worked previously at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and was a Principal at Industrial Economics, Incorporated. She was also the Director of Policy, Planning, and Budget for an independent federal agency and an analyst at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Ms. Robinson is a Councilor of the Society for Risk Analysis and the past-Chair of its Economics and Benefits Analysis Specialty Group. She was also a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis. She is on the Editorial Boards of Risk Analysis and the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. She organized and chaired the “New Ideas for Risk Regulation” conference sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and Resources for the Future. She received her Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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