Douglas Jones

Dr. Douglas N. Jones is the Harold L. and Audrey P. Enarson Professor (Emeritus) of Public Policy & Management at The Ohio State University and has been a member of the faculty since 1978. He was also the founding director of the National Regulatory Research Institute and served in that role from 1978 to 1998.

His fields of specialization are public utility and antitrust economics, economic development, privatization and public budgeting. He publishes mainly in the field of regulatory economics, deregulation and privatization.

His international consulting has been with Canada, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia and Egypt.

After earning a doctorate in economics from Ohio State he was a professor of economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy, chief economist on the President’s Committee for Developing Alaska, special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for Regional Economic Development, and worked on the congressional staff from 1969 to 1978, first as legislative assistant to a U.S. senator, then as assistant chief, economics division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.