Mr. Murray is Vice-President for Strategy at CEI. He is the author of the best-selling book on environmental policy, "The Really Inconvenient Truths," and specializes in energy, environment, finance, trade, and science and technology policy. He is also an expert on the role of government, the EU and the UK, and the role of liberty in political thought.
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 appearances. He has also given testimony to the US Senate. A veteran blogger, Mr. Murray contributes to National Review Online's Corner and Planet Gore blogs, and CEI's own OpenMarket. He also has a regular column on the Washington Examiner's Opinion Zone site.
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 immigrated 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
The Real Climate Confusion
By Iain Murray, January 28, 2010
An EPA Power Grab
By Iain Murray, Marlo Lewis, Jr., December 8, 2009
Health Care is Not a Right
By Iain Murray, Roger Abbott, November 17, 2009
A Century Behind: Our Electricity Regulations Are Stuck in Progressive Era
By Iain Murray, William Yeatman, October 2, 2009
The Military-Industrial-Environmental Complex
By Iain Murray, September 25, 2009
recent studies
Iain Murray's Testimony at the Legislative Hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
By Iain Murray, October 29, 2009
The Geopolitics of Climate: Cutting Through the Spin on International Climate Agreements
By Iain Murray, September 25, 2009
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
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 New Report: Cap-and-Trade is a Bust in Europe
The Washington Examiner, Oct. 29, 2009
Iain Murray on Tom Vilsack: Climate change efforts spell opportunity for American agriculture
The Washington Examiner, Aug. 26, 2009
Iain Murray on Anger Over UK Quango's Global Green Campaign
The Daily Mail, Aug. 26, 2009
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

