Jamie Brown Kruse

Co-director for NIST Center of Excellence for Risk-based Community Resilience Planning

Jamie Brown Kruse
  • Dr. Jamie Kruse is recognized for her research in economics and decision making under uncertainty especially as it relates to natural hazards.   Dr. Kruse has authored seventy published and forthcoming refereed journal articles in addition to books, proceedings, abstracts and reports, appearing in Econometrica, RAND Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Inquiry, Natural Hazards Review (ASCE), Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (ASCE), Environmetrics, Weather and Forecasting (AMS), Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineered Systems (ASCE), Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Insurance Issues, and others.  She held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, Texas Tech University, East Carolina University and a visiting position at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.  Her work has been supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security,  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and others.  She has served as an expert reviewer for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, US Army Corp of Engineers, Department of Homeland Security, and on more than twenty-five National Science Foundation panels across three directorates. In 2010 she held the position of Chief Economist at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  At the interagency level, she was a member of the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Subcommittee on Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and OSTP Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology. 

Contact Information

Office Location: Engineering, Room A213
Phone: (970) 491-0978
Fax: (970) 491-7727

Email:  resilience@colostate.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., 2002, University of Arizona