Jerry Taylor is the Director of Natural Resources Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. He has been a specialist in the field of oil and energy matters for 12 years, and has served on numerous congressional advisory bodies. He has testified over a dozen times at hearings on Capitol Hill regarding various energy and environmental policy matters.

Mr Taylor is the author of numerous studies and journal essays on energy and environmental issues. He has also contributed to several anthologies, including Market Liberalism: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century, The Cato Handbook for Congress, and China as a Global Economic Power: Market Reforms and the New Millennium.

Most recently, he was a contributor to Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet (New York: McGraw Hill, 1999).