Dr. Hamilton, a Professor and Chair of Economics in the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University, is an expert in the fields of environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, antitrust regulation, and public economics.

Dr. Hamilton is an economist with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, antitrust regulation, and public economics.

Professor Hamilton has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and is the author of more than 30 articles in leading academic journals. He has received numerous awards for his research, including grants from the US Department of Agriculture and US Environmental Protection Agency.

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University of California, Berkeley, PhD and MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California at Santa Barbara, BS in Economics and Environmental Studies