Molly Macauley
Resources for the Future

Dr. Macauley is a Senior Fellow with Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington DC.‚  Dr. Macauley's research at RFF includes the valuation of non-priced space resources, the design of incentive arrangements to improve space resource use, and the appropriate relationship between public and private endeavors in space research, development, and commercial enterprise. Dr Macauley has been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, and at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. Dr. Macauley has testified before Congress on the Commercial Space Act of 1997, the Omnibus Space Commercialization Act of 1996, the Space Business Incentives Act of 1996, and space commercialization. She has served on many national level committees and panels including the congressionally mandated Economic Study of Space Solar Power (chair), the National Research Council's (NRC) Aeronautic and Space Engineering Board's steering committee on issues of technology development for human and robotic exploration and development of space, the NRC Space Studies Board steering group on space applications and commercialization, the NRC Space Studies Board task force on priorities in space research, and the NRC decadal survey for earth science. In 1994, she was selected as one of the National Space Society's "Rising Stars," and in 2001 she was voted into the International Academy of Astronautics. She has also recently been appointed to the NRC's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. Dr. Macauley has published extensively with more than 70 journal articles, books, and chapters of books. She has served on the Board of Directors of Women in Aerospace and is President of the Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Program, College of William and Mary. Her PhD in economics is from Johns Hopkins University and her undergraduate degree in economics is from The College of William and Mary.