KEY-LOG ECONOMICS - Key Persons
Anna holds an M.S. in Environmental Economics from the University of Georgia, with a research focus on natural infrastructure and coastal economics. Her graduate research with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers focused on incorporating a broader set of nonmarket benefits into traditional cost-benefit methods in the federal agency, and several forthcoming publications contribute to emerging literature on coastal retreat and valuation of coastal resources. She is particularly interested in the use of Bayesian methods for optimal natural resource management and planning under risk and uncertainty. She completed her B.A. in Economics at the University of Virginia.
Hương co-leads our research, organizational development, and policy analysis work with NGOs and businesses in Southeast Asia. Her expertise spans integrative economic development, agricultural sustainability, planning, rights, and other law, and development policy. Hương is also a Lecturer in the School of Law, Vietnam National University, where she co-founded the schools' Human Rights Master's program. She also founded the Center for Development and Integration, an NGO focused on governance, labor rights, and inclusive growth in the context of Vietnam's rapid economic growth. She holds bachelor's degree in economics from National Economic University, Masters degrees in Human Rights and Public International Law from the University of Oslo, and a Ph.D. in Human Rights and Peace Studies from Mahidol Univerity (Thailand).
Job Titles:
- ECONOMIST and PRINCIPAL
- Resource Economist
Spencer is a natural resource economist who founded Key-Log Economics to help people, communities, and institutions understand and attain the benefits of improved land stewardship. He previously did this work at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Vice President for Ecology and Economics Research at The Wilderness Society. Spencer's current research focuses on ecosystem service values-especially as affected by climate change, public land and resource management, and water quality regulation-and on the relationships between economic development and environmental quality. His B.A. in economics is from the University of Virginia, and his M.S. and PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics are from Virginia Tech.