Charles Krusekopf PhD - School of Environment and Sustainability

Topics:
• Carbon trading markets and systems
• Environmental economics
• Economic ethics
• International trade
• Economic development and land in Asia

Charles Krusekopf teaches in the environment and management program and has been a member of its core faculty since joining Royal Roads University in 2005.

Krusekopf was an assistant professor of economics at Austin College in Sherman, Texas from 1999 to 2004. His research focus was common property grazing land in Mongolia and China, and economic development in Mongolia. In 2004, Krusekopf taught international trade at the Mongolian National University on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Krusekopf grew up in Midland, Texas in the heart of the Permian Basin oilfield. He travelled extensively in the late 1980s, experiencing martial law in China after the Tiananmen Square protest, witnessing the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, and even got the opportunity to swing a sledgehammer at the Berlin Wall in 1989.

He has done fieldwork in China focusing on that country`s institutions of land tenure and agriculture. Along the way he worked for Fortune Magazine in New York, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office in Washington D.C., and for the U. S. Embassy in Mongolia. He has been a consultant on economic development with the World Bank and the Soros Foundation, among other agencies. 

Affiliations:
Executive director for the American Center for Mongolian Studies

Media queries for RRU staff and faculty should be directed to 

Doug Ozeroff in RRU Community Relations, 250-391-2526.  For other queries, contact Dr. Krusekopf directly.