Eric Ruder Email & Phone Number

Mr. Ruder has over 20 years of consulting experience, specializing in environmental policy and risk assessment. As a Principal at Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc), his work focuses on two primary areas: (1) Devising and testing alternative regulatory approaches intended to encourage firms from a wide range of industrial sectors to achieve beyond-compliance performance. These approaches include a range of performance-based, and market-based incentives. He also has extensive expertise in evaluating the costs and benefits of both alternative and traditional regulatory policies.(2) Developing improved risk assessment techniques for policy applications. His risk assessment experience ranges from developing improved techniques to address emerging issues in the use of risk assessment in policy settings, such as evaluating cumulative risk at the community level, to conducting numerous human health and environmental risk assessments. His work in this area has been conducted in support of a variety of activities, including EPA policy-making efforts, priority-setting efforts in Eastern Europe, site-specific remediation decisions, and natural resource damage assessments.

Listed skills include Environmental Policy, Risk Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Consulting, and 7 others.