Visiting Professor
Don Fullerton is Gutgsell Professor of Finance (Emeritus) at the U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Professor, Bren School of the Environment, U.C. Santa Barbara (2023-present). During 2017-2019, he was Editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). His research analyzes distributional and efficiency effects of environmental and tax policies. He received a BA from Cornell, and a PhD in Economics from U.C. Berkeley. He taught at Princeton, the U. of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon, and the U. of Texas, before joining Illinois in 2008. From 1985 to 1987, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Lead Author of the 5th Assessment Report, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).