Author Description
Richard Slaughter is an international economic and public policy consultant, Director of the Boise Committee on Foreign Relations, and co-founder and vice-president of the American Committees on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC. He was previously Chief Economist of the State of Idaho (1976-84), and Director of the Martin Institute at the University of Idaho (1996–2000). He has consulted privately since 1984. His current work is focused on adaptation to climate change, primarily with regard to institutional support for natural resource use and transfers, for the Climate Impacts Group of the University of Washington. Slaughter holds a BA from the University of Idaho, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in International Politics from the University of Denver. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and serves on the boards of the Martin Institute at the University of Idaho, the Frank Church Institute at Boise State University, and the American Committees on Foreign Relations. Related publications include work on third world economic development in The National Interest (2002) and on water transfers in The Journal of the American Water Resources Association (2007, 2009).