UW Economics Professor Receives Swedish Royal Academic Appointment |
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Dec. 1, 2006 -- University of Wyoming Professor Jason Shogren has accepted a royal appointment as Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf's professor of environmental science.
Shogren is UW's Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management and an economics professor in the UW College of Business. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he will work with Umea University's Institute of Economics and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences' Institute of Forest Economics.
The prestigious professorship appointment, created in 1996 to honor King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50th birthday, was established to promote education and research in environmental protection, Shogren says.
One of his first duties will be to lecture to the king and his court. Among his other assignments will be to lecture throughout Sweden about humans, society and nature and to help develop world-class research with Swedish colleagues.
"I am honored by this appointment. My family of lumberjacks left Sweden more than a century ago, and I imagine they would be as flattered as I am about this unexpected royal homecoming," Shogren says.
Shogren's research focuses on microeconomics with strong elements of experimental and applied economics with emphasis on environmental and natural resource economics and coherent policy questions.
In 1997 Shogren was the White House senior economist for environmental and natural resource policy, Council of Economic Advisers. He also served on Wyoming's Environmental Quality Council from 2000-2004.
Shogren is co-editor of Elsevier's Resource and Energy Economics, an international resource and energy economics journal. The journal provides a forum for high-level economic analysis of the utilization and development of the earth's natural resources.
He also coordinates the annual Stroock Forum on Wyoming Lands and People at UW.
The King Carl XVI Gustaf professorship was created under a foundation established in the king of Sweden's honor by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Confederation of Swedish Industries. The appointment is administered by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.
For more information, call Shogren at (307) 766-5430.
Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006
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