Maria Damon

Maria Damon
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 329
mdamon@u.washington.edu
206.685.7527

Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Policy, Public Health, International Development

Maria Damon joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. She teaches courses on environmental policy, quantitative analysis, and the microeconomics of policy analysis.

Damon’s research focuses on environmental policy design, and how understanding decision-making processes can lead to more effective policies. She also studies the relationships between health and natural resource management in developing countries, and ways in which natural resources can be better managed in the face of disease epidemics.

Outside of academics, Damon served a one-year appointment as the staff economist for environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has worked as a research analyst at The World Bank.

Damon holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a BA in economics from Cornell University. She also completed an NSF-IGERT joint doctoral program on marine biodiversity and conservation at the University of California, San Diego and Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

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