Richard B. Belzer
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Strategy and analysis consulting
in regulation, risk, economics, and information quality

Who Is Richard Burton Belzer?

I don't play a cynical detective on television. 
I never met Elizabeth Taylor. 

From 1988-1998, I was a staff economist at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the small unit within the U.S. Office of Management and Budget that reviews draft regulations before they are published for public comment or promulgated as rules. I was responsible for reviewing (and improving the quality of) regulatory analyses prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and various components of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, and the Interior.

From 1998-2001, I was visiting professor of public policy at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the regulatory studies program at the University's Weidenbaum Center.

I earned my master's in agricultural economics from the University of California (Davis) in 1980, my master's in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1982, and my doctorate in public policy from Harvard University in 1989.

For most publications, presentations, and testimony that do not precede the Internet era, click on the Library tab on the upper right. For a curriculum vitae, click on the Contact tab.

Service to the Profession

  • Elected Treasurer, Society for Risk Analysis (1998, 2000)
  • Elected Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Benefit Cost Analysis (2008, 2010, 2012)
  • Elected Treasurer, Society for Benefit Cost Analysis (2014)

Awards

  • Special Award for Performance, Office of Management and Budget (1990)
  • Division Award, Office of Management and Budget (1991, 1992, 1993)
  • Senior Fellow, Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, University of Texas-Dallas (1995)
  • Outstanding Service Award, Society for Risk Analysis (2003)
Copyright Richard Burton Belzer 1989-2011 unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.