Economics Research

While he served for decades as the Director of the Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA) at Florida State University (FSU) he also taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Economics,  Political Science, and Urban Planning as well.  His academic research experience ranges from working with the Center for Applied Power Systems (CAPS) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and member of the US Senate Maglev Technical Advisory Committee on (MTAC) superconducting materials to Visiting Scholar at Argonne National Labs. Throughout his career he has led and published cutting edge economics research on issues of health care, energy, the environmental, forecasting, transportation, advanced technologies futures and other important economic-policy issues of the day.
Dr. Lynch served as Florida’s Chief Environmental Economist with the Department of Environmental Regulation for a decade and Advisor to the Vice-Chair of the US National Commission on Air Quality. For three years he also served as Florida’s Chief, at the Center for Health Care Statistics, Agency Health Care Administration (during the years of national and Florida health care reform). 

Dr Lynch was invited also to teach and lecture internationally in India, China, and the middle east with the Cambridge Graduate University (www.cguiedu.com/) on international and health care economics as well.

He served as the Assistant Director of the Florida High Speed Rail Transportation Commission (six years), Staff Director, Florida Hurricane Academic Task Force (after Hurricane Andrew ravaged Florida and international insurance markets), and served on numerous other statewide and national task forces including and appointment by then Governor Jeb Bush to the Florida 2020 Electric Energy Deregulation Advisory Commission plotting Florida’s energy future.