Kathleen Segerson is an environmental economist, whose research is focused primarily on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, including applications to groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, workplace accidents; land use regulation, climate change and nonpoint pollution from agriculture. She is a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). She has held numerous editorial positions and has served on a number of advisory committees for the National Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD from Cornell University and a BA from Dartmouth College.