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Mark R. WeimarPacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Mark has a B.Sc. in Agriculture and Resource Economics, Oregon State University and a Ph.D. in Economics (Major in Agriculture) from Iowa State University. At PNNL since 1993, Mark worked at the Economic Research Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (~7 years) prior to joining PNNL. He is a member of the Technology Planning and Deployment Group in the Energy and Engineering Resources Division. He has received numerous performance awards and authored over 80 publications.
Dr. Weimar's professional career includes a broad range of experience from agricultural policy to energy policy using the modeling of systems. While Dr. Weimar worked for USDA, he was their poultry forecaster, cross commodity forecaster and Dairy Research Section Leader. While Section Leader, he was detailed to the Assistant Secretary for Economics Office to analyze impacts of legislation and market orders. His teams used Computable General Equilibrium models, IMPLAN and Partial Market Models to analyze the impacts of legislation upon all sectors of the economy. In addition, he teamed with another economist to develop a long term econometric forecasting model for the Livestock and Poultry sector which is still be used to estimate impacts of legislation and droughts upon the economy from that sector.
Since arriving at PNNL, his background in Finance, Marketing, Economics, Theory of the Firm and Decision-making under risk and uncertainty provided a key set of tools to analyze market incentives, assess market penetration capability, and develop excise tax revenue forecasting models. Key work while at PNNL included developing pricing and incentives for the TWRS performance-based contracting; market assessments of NASA collaboratory, Homeland Security, etc, analyze the survival of Russian nuclear electrical power generation and the Russian Grid. He also was heavily involved in developing the financing documents for the $4.0 billion financing of privatized TWRS contract.
Key Skills: Linear Programming, Econometrics, Financial Modeling (risk-based), Cost-Benefit Modeling, Market Assessment (risk-based), Performance-Based Incentive Contracting, Operations Management, Interface Management, Internet Searches, Analysis
Outside Work Interests: Outdoor work, golf, going to the Tri-City Court Club, Coaching Tri-City Youth Soccer