Timothy Fitzgerald is an economist appointed as an Associate Professor in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He is also currently serving as chair of the Physical Infrastructure Subcommittee of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In 2017-2018, he served at the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House as a Senior Economist and as Chief International Economist. He has been a fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT.