Bryan Leonard

Dr. Bryan Leonard is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and the SER Chair of Environment and Natural Resources in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming. He is also an Affiliated Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 

Leonard earned his PhD in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with research interests in political economy, natural resource economics, applied microeconomics, law and economics, and economic history. He is an alum of the Mercatus Adam Smith fellowship, earned an MS in applied economics from Montana State University, an MS in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in economics from Hillsdale College.

He is an Affiliate of the Environmental Markets Lab at UC Santa Barbara and the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. He serves on the editorial board at Land Economics and is a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, where he co-directs summer research fellowships. His research explores the efficiency and equity implications of different institutional responses to environmental and natural resource problems, focusing on land, water, and other resources.

For further publications by Dr. Leonard, visit his website.