Ross McKitrick

Ross McKitrick (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and climate change denial issues, including co-authoring the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming. He is the author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy published by the University of Toronto Press. His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation.