Mike is President and Chief Economist at JFA. He has directed JFA’s public policy analysis efforts for more than 40 years. He is a frequently sought expert on transportation policy, benefit-cost analysis, and economic impact analysis. He has considerable experience evaluating policy and technical issues related to highway finance, multimodal transportation planning, environmental and energy planning, disaster mitigation, and benefit-cost analysis. He has directed more than one hundred economic analysis studies of government programs. He is an active member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), having been Co-Chair of the Committee on Economic Development and Land Use, and as an active member and friend of committees on energy, alternative fuels, air quality, freight logistics and planning, and disaster recovery and resiliency. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and an MBA in Finance and Applied Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.