Management Team
Michael Lawrence - President and Chief
Economist
Lawrence is President and
Chief Economist at JFA.
Lawrence has directed JFA's policy analysis efforts for more than 20
years. He is a frequently sought expert on transportation policy and
economic impact analysis.
He has considerable experience
evaluating policy and technical issues surrounding highway finance,
multimodal transportation planning, environmental and energy
planning, and cost benefit analysis. He has directed more than one
hundred economic analysis studies of government programs.
Lawrence has a
Bachelor of Arts in economics and a MBA in applied finance from the
University of California - Berkeley.
Jonathan Skolnik - Vice President and Senior
Economist
Skolnik is Vice President and a Senior Economist
at JFA. He is an economic policy analyst with 30 years of
specialized experience in the development of economic data and
models used in federal policy analysis.
He has spent his career developing economic input-out models
and has extensive experience in applying these models to the
transportation and energy sectors. Skolnik has a Bachelor of
Arts in economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a
Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University.
Lewison Lem, Ph.D. - Climate Change Practice
Leader
Dr. Lem is JFA's climate change practice leader.
He has extensive experience in the areas of policy analysis at the
intersection of transportation, energy, and the environment. Dr. Lem
was formerly a senior tansportation policy analyst at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's
Office of Transportation and Air Quality, and the transportation
policy manager of AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah. Dr.
Lem has assisted more than 30 states with consensus-building, policy
development, and technical analysis for state energy and climate
plans. Dr. Lem has managed economic and environmental studies for a
wide range of public, private, and philanthropic organizations,
including the United States Congress, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, and the Energy Foundation. He has
been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at several universities, including the University of California -
Berkeley, Portland State University, the University of Hawaii, and
Florida State University. Dr. Lem has a Bachelor of Arts in
government studies from Harvard University, a Master of Public
Administration degree from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in urban
planning from the University of California - Los Angeles.
Harry Chmelynski, Ph.D. - Senior Statistician
Dr. Chmelynski is an applied statistician, programmer, and modeler
with 30 years of experience. He oversees the development of
quantitative models and the utilization of the IMPLAN input output
model. He has supervised JFA staff in assembling large datasets on
economic output, employment, and trade inter-relationships
information in the transportation, energy, and environmental
sectors. Dr. Chmelynski has a Bachelor of Arts in physics from
Rensselar Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Physics degree from the
University of California - Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from
Carnegie-Mellon University.