Strategy and analysis consulting
in regulation, risk, economics, and information quality

Consulting Services

On July 1, 2015, I celebrated 14 years of providing high-impact consulting services to corporations, trade associations, individuals, and charitable non-profit organizations.

As the federal government has grown, so has the scope and scale of its regulatory reach and effects. What do my clients have in common? A commitment and genuine interest in sound regulatory policy grounded in the broadest conception of the public interest.
  • Regulatory, deregulatory, and non-regulatory strategies
Regulatory agencies gravitate to regulatory solutions. They often choose a particular regulatory solution without carefully examining either the problem or the likely consequences of their preferred remedy. Regulations never work as expected, and often have unintended consequences.

Sometimes the underlying problem isn't a failure of private markets but an existing government regulation. Reforming an existing regulation may produce a better outcome that layering g a new regulation onto the existing one. 

I work with clients who are interested in creative solutions to regulatory problems.
  • Scientific, economic, and risk analysis
Public health and safety regulation is always built on scientific and economic foundations. It goes astray if the underlying science or economics is flawed or biased, or otherwise not performed correctly.

Well-crafted scientific and economic analyses is objective. It does not confuse what is from what ought to be. People have a right to disagree about what government ought to do about a problem, but they should never have to argue about matters of fact and knowledge.

​I help clients persuade regulates to use objective risk and economic analysis in regulatory decision-making.
  • Information quality
Every federal agency is required by law to have administrative procedures that enable any affected person to seek and obtain the correction of erroneous information that it disseminates. In enacting this law, Congress made a commitment to obtain, use, and disseminate only objective information.

I help clients correct errors in the information agencies disseminate. 
  • Paperwork reduction
Did you know that the federal government is required by law to minimize the paperwork and recordkeeping burdens it imposes on the public? And that agencies are required to how that the information they require th public to provide must actually serve the statutory purposes for its collection?

I help clients minimize their paperwork burdens and ensure that government agencies collect only the information they really need.