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Tim Lynch, PHD
Director Emeritus,
Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis
(CEFA cefa.fsu.edu)
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Tim Lynch, PHD
Director Emeritus,
Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA cefa.fsu.edu)
Florida State University
Professor, Global Health Care Economics and Finance (Retired) Cambridge Graduate University
Dr. Lynch Florida State University Degrees Degrees include:
PHD Economics & ABD in Political Science
MS in Environmental and Transportation Planning in Urban and Regional Planning
BS in Economics and Political Science
Dr Lynch has specializations in health care and environmental, energy, and transportation and international economics
He served for decades as the Director of the Center for Economic Forecasting and Analysis (CEFA, cefa.fsu.edu) at Florida State University (FSU) and taught Economics, Political Science and Urban Planning as an Economics Adjunct Professor. His academic research experience ranges from founding member and Economist for the Center for Applied Power Systems (CAPS) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) and member of the US Senate Maglev Technical Advisory Committee on superconducting materials to pioneering research on 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. Lynch was also served as one of Florida's key health economic damages experts in the successful tobacco law-suit netting Florida $14.7 billion in settlement funds to be used for children's health initiatives under Governor Lawton Chiles.
Dr Lynch 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 (following hurricane Andrew's devastation across Florida). and on Governor Bush's 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.