Eric Ruder
Principal
Eric Ruder specializes in environmental policy and risk assessment. His work in environmental policy focuses on devising and testing alternative regulatory and voluntary approaches to promote sustainability and to encourage facilities from a wide range of industrial sectors to achieve beyond-compliance performance. These approaches include a range of performance-based, voluntary programs and market-based incentives. Eric also has extensive expertise in evaluating the costs and benefits of both alternative and traditional regulatory policies.
A primary focus of his work in the area of risk assessment has been developing improved techniques for policy applications and applying decision analysis to evaluate the value of the information provided by these techniques. His risk assessment experience includes addressing emerging issues, such as evaluating cumulative risk at the community level, assessing disproportionate environmental health impacts, and conducting numerous site-specific health risk assessments. Eric’s work in this area has been conducted in support of a variety of activities, including EPA policy-making efforts, priority-setting efforts in Eastern Europe, site-specific remediation decisions, and natural resource damage assessments.
Eric holds a B.A. in Environmental Science from Wesleyan University, and an M.S. in Environmental Health Management from the Harvard University School of Public Health.