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Randall Jackson
Dr. Randall Jackson has nearly three decades of national
and regional input-output research and applications experience and is among the
nation’s foremost input-output modeling experts. He has published dozens of
input-output articles in refereed journals, including the first formalized
method for regionalizing U.S. national commodity industry accounts in Economic
Systems Research in 1998.
In January of 2002, Randy joined the West Virginia University faculty as
Regional Research Institute Director and Professor of Geology and Geography,
following previous appointments in the Geography department and Center for
Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University and the department of
Geography at The Ohio State University. While at OSU, he also served two years
as Associate Director for Research Computing.
Randy’s research interests center on regional economic development with
topics ranging from regional economic development strategies through the
refinement and reformulation of regional economic modeling frameworks to
interregional trade and conjoined macroeconomic energy and environmental
modeling. He has been involved in a wide variety of funded research projects
with support from a variety of sources including National Science Foundation,
the US Departments of Commerce, Energy and Agriculture, the Appalachian
Regional Commission, and the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation.
Randy has published in a wide range of academic journals and serves or
served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regional Science,
International Regional Science Review, Letters in Spatial and Resource
Sciences, the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The Professional
Geographer, Geographical Analysis, and Papers in Regional Science. He was
the 2006-2007 Chair of the North American Regional Science Council, and in 2007
received the David E. Boyce Award for distinguished service to the Regional
Science Association International. In 2015 Randy was elected Fellow of the
Southern Regional Science Association, where he served as the 2011 Association
President. He serves on the Western Regional Science Association Board of
Directors, and in addition to his primary appointments, he holds Adjunct
Professorships in Economics and Resource Economics at WVU, Geography at The
Ohio State University, and formerly in Economics at the University of
Pittsburgh. He consults privately through his company, EconAlyze LLC.
