Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.

Dr. Henry Robison is a senior economist and co-principal of Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. (EMSI). He has over twenty years of experience and a significant publications record in regional economic impact modeling and analysis. He is recognized for theoretical work blending regional input-output and spatial trade theory, and for development of community-level input-output modeling and analysis. He served 10 years as faculty member and consultant to the University of Idaho, where he secured a wide array of grants and contract research. Dr. Robison's major EMSI consulting projects include design of the Utah Multiregional Input-Output (UMRIO) Model; work (in partnership with Rutgers and Princeton Universities) for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) to assess the effectiveness of EDA regional economic development grants; partner with New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University to develop the Federal Highway Administration's TELUS transportation project impact model; and extensive work with the U.S. Forest Service in ten western states on measuring the economic impacts of federal land management planning.

Dr. Kjell Christophersen is a senior economist and co-principal of EMSI, with thirty years of international and domestic experience. He has extensive international experience in West Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean as an economic development consultant. His previous clients include USAID, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, Club du Sahel, and private clients. He has worked in 56 countries and served as team leader on projects involving economic modeling, project designs and evaluations, natural resource management assessments, planning, feasibility and recurrent cost studies, training needs assessments, training in economic and financial analysis, economics of ecotourism, and environmental assessments from the economics perspective. Before joining EMSI and starting CCbenefits, Dr. Christophersen was a Senior Manager for the International Resources Group (1983-2001), Associate Professor at the University of Idaho (1977-1983), and an adjunct associate professor at Washington State University (1992-1998). To date Dr. Christophersen has produced more than 700 socioeconomic impact studies for community and technical colleges throughout the United States and Canada.