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.
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recent op-eds & articles
Will Congress Switch Off the Lights?
By Iain Murray, June 25, 2009
Regulators Fail Chemistry Test
By Iain Murray, May 30, 2009
I’m All Right, Barack: The Perils of a Nationalized Car Maker
By Iain Murray, May 21, 2009
California’s Sorry State Points to America’s Future
By Iain Murray, William Yeatman, May 20, 2009
Just What Is Waxman-Markey For?
By Iain Murray, May 7, 2009
recent studies
The Calculation of Climate Change Risk in the Provision of Insurance
By Eli Lehrer, Iain Murray, Michelle Minton, March 6, 2009
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
news release
Statement on the Progress of the London G20 Summit
By Iain Murray, April 2, 2009
Union Citation Blues
By Iain Murray, March 2, 2004
recent citations
Iain Murray on Obama and energy, 100 days later
One News Now, May. 4, 2009
Iain Murray on Waxman, Markey devise a bill to give us all gas
Sentinel & Enterprise, May. 4, 2009
Iain Murray on Only magic wand would slash CO2
OC Register, May. 4, 2009
Iain Murray on Federal War on CO2 Leaves Americans Waiting to Exhale
HumanEvents.com, May. 4, 2009
Iain Murray on CO2 Leaves US Out of Breath
The Korea times, May. 3, 2009

