Donald W.
Jones, Ph.D., Vice President
Donald Jones is a senior economist and Vice President for
marketing at RCF. He is author or co-author of four
monographs, one edited volume and over 50 articles in
professional journals. A number of his articles have been
reprinted in collections of readings and classic articles
in their fields. He has taught on the faculties of the
Universities of Chicago, Colorado, and Tennessee. Dr. Jones
has served as a research staff member and economist at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. His experience includes energy
project and program evaluation (U.S. and Third World), risk
management, investment in new technologies, land use and
deforestation, economics of R&D, value of power system
reliability, commercial real estate, corporate incentive
structures, infrastructure productivity and benefit
estimation, transportation demand and fatality forecasting,
and macroeconomic impacts of oil price shocks. Dr. Jones
received his Ph.D. in Geography with a concentration in
economics from the University of Chicago.