Dominic (Nick) Parker is the Olav F. and Else de Noyer Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has won several awards for research and teaching. He holds a PhD in economics from UC-Santa Barbara where he was a National Science Foundation fellow in economics & environmental science.
In addition to serving editorial roles at three leading journals in environmental economics, Parker contributes research to economics, science, and law journals. It includes studies of environmental markets and property rights, mining and energy booms, land use, fishery and wildlife regulations, water trading, and the political economy of policies toward Indigenous people. His research has been covered in more than 100 media outlets including BBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. It has provided input for domestic and international policies ranging from US Department of Interior rules on federal land use to guidelines for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on supply-chain reporting and conflict minerals.
Parker holds academic affiliations complementary to his activities at UW-Madison. He is the Ilene and Morton Harris Senior Fellow (adjunct) at Stanford’s Hoover Institution where he directs projects on Renewing Indigenous Economies and Markets vs. Mandates for the Environment. Parker is a regular lecturer on research methodology for the Ronald Coase Institute, and for Elinor Ostrom Workshop programs for young scholars and a senior fellow at the Property Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.