Bio

Dr. A. Scott Voorhees works as an Environmental Scientist on air pollution economic and policy issues as well as international benefits analysis at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He holds degrees in Biology, Asian Studies, Environmental Science, and Public Health from Wittenberg University, Miami University and the University of Tokyo. He has worked on air pollution regulatory and policy issues for the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards for three decades. He has experience in toxic air pollutant standard setting, industrial source permitting, and Asian urban air pollution benefit-cost analysis. In 2012, he completed a second Fulbright Fellowship research project at China’s top university estimating the human health impacts of air pollution in Shanghai. Previously, he conducted air pollution policy research at the Japanese Ministry of Environment as a Fulbright scholar and international air quality assessment at Kyoto University as an Abe Fellow. At the EPA, he currently focuses on US-China bilateral activities related to regional air quality management.