Rubin named director of Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center
Carol Kim, University of Maine’s vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, has named economics professor Jonathan Rubin the director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.
The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center is a nonpartisan, independent research and public service unit of UMaine.
Rubin has been a member of the center’s faculty since 1998.
He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rochester in 1984 and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1993 from the University of California, Davis.
Rubin was a Fulbright Scholar at the Clean Energy Research Centre, University of Botswana and a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, University of Cambridge. He is the chair of the Environment and Energy Section of the U.S. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Rubin’s research has been supported by the U.S. Department of State, National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, New England University Transportation Center, and the Maine Department of Transportation. He has provided testimony to the Maine State Legislature and has been featured on Maine television and radio programs.