Arlon Tussing, Research Professor of Economics, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

Arlon R. Tussing specializes in economics and public policy regarding energy, natural resources and the environment, and national and regional economic development. He has been affiliated with the University of Alaska and ISER since 1965. He has also been long associated with the Scott Polar Research Institute of Cambridge University in research on the circumpolar North. As analyst, author, and member of governmental commissions and advisory bodies in the United States and Canada, Mr. Tussing has been a major authority and influence upon the evolution and restructuring of natural-gas and electricity markets in North America, and on the economics and governance of the petroleum industry in Alaska, including planning and authorization oil and gas pipelines. Mr. Tussing is author, co-author, or editor of more than three hundred books, reports, and articles on these and related topics. His recent professional concerns have included economic reconstruction in the Russian Far East, with particular emphasis on development of the region’s oil and gas resources for markets in Northeast Asia ( China, Japan, and Korea). He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, pursued advanced study at Hitotsubashi University ( Tokyo), and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington ( Seattle).

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