Agricultural Economist
Wes L. Hanson
Wes Hanson is an Agricultural Economist with the Office of Energy and Environmental Policy.
He co-leads the Department's Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Assessment Program, and coordinates efforts across the Department to improve greenhouse gas emission estimates in the agricultural sector. He is the lead author of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity-Scale Inventory (second edition), and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory: 1990-2018. Wes is an alumnus of the Presidential Management Fellows program, and a Veteran of the USAF. He holds a MPP in Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Linfield University.
