Richard Lyndell Stroup is a free-market environmentalist, adjunct professor at North Carolina State University, research fellow at the Independent Institute, adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, member of the Mont Pèlerin Society and former professor of economics at Montana State University, where he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics. He also served as director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Interior. He contributed to Re-Thinking Green, edited Cutting Green Tape, and co-authored Economics: Public and Private Choice, which received the 2004 Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award. He is married to Jane Shaw, former President of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.