Tim Lynch
Tim Lynch, PHD
Director Emeritus,
Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA cefa.fsu.edu)
Who we are
Dr Lynch Has worked in the areas of Environmental and Health Care Economics for more than forty five years
Dr. Lynch holds a doctorate in Economics and ABD in Political Science, an MS in Environmental and Transportation Planning in Urban and Regional Planning and BS in Economics from Florida State University.
He has special interests in the areas of international economics, health care, environmental, energy, and transportation economics. He served for decades as the Director of the Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA) at Florida State University (FSU) and an Economics Adjunct Professor teaching in Economics, Political Science,and Urban Planning as well. His academic research experience ranges from working with the Center for Applied Power Systems at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and member of the US Senate Maglev Technical Advisory Committee on superconducting materials and researched health care, energy, environmental, forecasting, advanced technologies futures and all ranges of and economic-policy issues.
Dr. Lynch served as Florida’s Chief Environmental Economist with the Department of Environmental Regulation for 10 years and Advisor to the Vice-Chair of the US National Commission on Air Quality and later as Florida’s Chief Health Care Economist/Statistician as the Chief of the Center for Health Statistics, Florida Health Care Administration for three years. He also served as a Visiting Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory over the decade of the 1990s . He has served on the US National Clean Water Quality numerous national and International committees, task forces, and commissions. He served as the Assistant Director of the Florida High Speed Rail Transportation Commission (six years), Staff Director on the Florida Hurricane Academic Task Force (three years), and on the Florida 2020 Electric Energy Deregulation Advisory Commission. The Commission completed its report to the governor and the legislature and provided guidance on the best future direction for Florida’s electric energy industry..