Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he focuses on environmental economics. He has published many studies on the economic analysis of pollution policy, economic growth and air pollution trends, climate policy options, the measurement of global warming, and statistical methods in paleoclimatology. He has also published numerous invited book chapters, newspaper and magazine essays and think tank reports.

In 2003 his (coauthored) book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming won the $10,000 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian Public Policy.

Professor McKitrick has been cited in media around the world as an expert on the science and policy of global warming. He has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, and has testified before the US Congress and the Canadian Parliamentary Finance and Environment Committees. In 2006 he was one of 12 experts from around the world asked to brief a panel of the US National Academy of Sciences on paleoclimate reconstruction methodology.

Professor McKitrick holds a BA in economics from Queen's University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 1996, Associate Professor in 2001 and Full Professor in 2009. He is also Director of Graduate Studies in the Economics Department. In the fall of 2002 he was appointed as a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver B.C.

His area of specialization is environmental economics and policy analysis. His research areas include modeling the relationship between economic growth and pollution emissions; regulatory mechanism design; and various aspects of the science and policy of global warming. His economics research has appeared in such journals as The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Modeling, The Canadian Journal of Economics, Empirical Economics, The Energy Journal, and Environmental and Resource Economics. His physical science research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Research, The Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he and Christopher Essex of the University of Western Ontario published the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming which in 2003 was awarded the $10,000 Donner Prize for Best Book on Canadian Public Policy.

Professor McKitrick is widely-cited in Canada and around the world as an expert on global warming and environmental policy issues. He has been interviewed by media around the world, including Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, the CBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Global TV, CTV, and others. His commentaries have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek and the Financial Post. His research has been discussed in such places as Nature, Science, The Economist, Natuurwetenschap&Techniek, The National Post, The Globe and Mail and in a front page article in the The Wall Street Journal (Feb 14 2005).

Professor McKitrick has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, and he has testified before the US Congress and the Canadian Parliamentary Finance and Environment Committees. In 2006 he was one of 12 experts from around the world asked to brief a panel of the US National Academy of Sciences on paleoclimate reconstruction methodology.

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