Iain Murray is a Director of Projects and Analysis and Senior Fellow in Energy, Science and Technology at CEI.
A veteran blogger, Mr Murray contributes to National Review Online's Corner and Planet Gore blogs, The Commons Blog and CEI's own OpenMarket. He writes regularly for print and online sources, his CEI articles having appeared in The New York Post, Investors Business Daily, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner and many other newspapers. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN Headline News, the BBC and Al-Jazeera among other broadcast appearences.
Before coming to CEI, Mr. Murray was Senior Analyst and then Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit that looked at how scientific and statistical information were used or misused by the media and policy-makers.
Originally from the United Kingdom, Mr. Murray emigrated to the US in 1997, after having worked at the British Department of Transport, advising Ministers on railroad privatization, the role of private finance in infrastructure investment and the role of transportation in the economic development of London.
Mr. Murray is also a Visiting Fellow of the British think tank The Adam Smith Institute. Mr. Murray holds a BA and MA from the University of Oxford, an MBA from the University of London and the Diploma of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
recent op-eds & articles
Obama’s promises on climate change clash with reality
By Iain Murray, December 7, 2008
Economic Change We Need
By Iain Murray, November 12, 2008
Danny Finkelstein is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong about the US elections
By Iain Murray, November 6, 2008
Let Friedman Reign
By Iain Murray, November 1, 2008
Will More Drilling Increase U.S. Energy Security?
By Iain Murray, September 30, 2008
recent studies
Global Warming Economics
By Iain Murray, June 19, 2008
The Consumer-Last Energy Bill
By Iain Murray, Eli Lehrer, May 13, 2008
The Really Inconvenient Truths
By Iain Murray, April 22, 2008
A Free Market Approach to Energy Security
By Iain Murray, April 17, 2008
Why Price Gouging Doesn't Exist
By Iain Murray, June 11, 2007
news release
Union Citation Blues
By Iain Murray, March 2, 2004
recent citations
Iain Murray on Continuing to drill for oil
ShopFloor.org, Dec. 31, 2008
Iain Murray on Phantom Jobs
New York Post, Dec. 6, 2008
Iain Murray on Obama’s Code-Green Economy
The National Review, Dec. 5, 2008
Iain Murray on online activism and BeyondBailouts.org.
DC Examiner, Oct. 29, 2008
Iain Murray on the costs of greenhouse gas regulation
Orange County Register, Oct. 22, 2008
