Doug Wakeman

Meredith University, School of Business (Ret.)

Term: 2019 - 2022

Action Team Assignment: Natural Resource Policy & Economics

Monitoring and Assessment Team Assignment: Human Dimensions

STAC Member Since: August 2016

Title: Professor of Economics (Ret.)

Department: School of Business Organization:Meredith College

Education: PhD Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1986) BA Economics & Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978)

Primary Focus Area: Industrial Organization & Antitrust

Secondary Focus Area(s): Environmental Economics

Career Experiences: I have recently retired from 32 years of teaching economics, finance, statistics, and quantitative methods at Meredith College. My focus since the early 1990s has been analysis and advocacy on behalf of water quality and environmental sustainability. I have served on the board of directors of the NC Coastal Federation since 1995, and have provided that group with analysis of economic impacts of many & varied coastal policy actions. I also serve on the board of directors of the NC Conservation Network, and also on the NC Division of Water Resources Criteria Implementation Committee. Although I have analyzed issues in Florida, Georgia, New York, and the NC piedmont, I have largely concentrated on coastal North Carolina. Over the past 25 years I have worked with other organizations and agencies on specific issues, including the PamlicoTar River Foundation (phosphate mining; CAFOs), US Fish & Wildlife Service (beach renourishment; Oregon Inlet jetties), Southern Environmental Law Center (coal ash; terminal groins; offshore drilling; beach renourishment; structures in public trust waters; Oregon Inlet; phosphate mining), NC Sea Grant (waterfront access), Haw River Assembly (algae blooms), NC Greenpower (renewable energy); Coastal Conservation Association (fisheries management), Environmental Defense Fund (riparian buffers) and the NC Division of Marine Fisheries (Environment & Habitat Advisory Committee; Crustacean Advisory Committee).