Kenneth J. Sim is Director of the Reliable Energy Education Network and a former Analyst with STRATA Policy. He specializes in environmental policy and has particular experience working with the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act. He received both a master’ s degree in geography and bachelor’ s degree in environmental studies from Utah State University, and he is the co-author of Nature Unbound: Bureaucracy vs. the Environment and of policy reports for the Mercatus Center, Southern Utah University, and STRATA Policy.
Randy T. Simmons is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute; Professor of Economics and Director of the Center on Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University' s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business; Co-Founder, President and Director of Research of Strata; Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center; and former Mayor of Providence, Utah. He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Oregon, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Utah League of Cities and Towns and a Member of the Utah Governor' s Privatization Commission.
Ryan M. Yonk is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research. He received his Ph. D. in political science from Georgia State University, and he was formerly Program Director for the Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise and Lecturer of Economics in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics at North Dakota State University, Assistant Research Professor of Economics and Finance at Utah State University and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Utah University.
