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# Jerry Taylor 

Former Vice President 

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Jerry Taylor served as director of natural resource studies, a senior fellow, and a vice president for development at the Cato Institute until 2014. He was published in the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Washington Post*, the *New York Times*, the *Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy*, the *Columbia Journal of International Affairs*, *Regulation* magazine, and other publications.

Taylor served on several congressional advisory bodies and testified frequently on Capitol Hill regarding various energy and environmental policy matters. He was the author or coauthor of numerous Cato policy studies addressing energy taxes, the oil market, electricity regulation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable development, and trade and the environment. He has also contributed to several anthologies, including *The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics* (2007), *Energy & American Society — 13 Myths* (2007), *The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later* (2005), *Earth Report 2000* (2000), *China as a Global Economic Power* (1997), and *Market Liberalism* (1993).

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