Memoirs of a Traveling Economist

Dr. Kjell Christophersen is a senior economist with 40 years of international and domestic experience. He is the co-founder and recently retired Senior Economist of Economic Modeling Specialists—Emsi—headquartered in Moscow ID and with offices in the U.K. and Dallas, Texas. Emsi specializes in economic impact analysis, labor market/workforce development forecasting, and economic growth analysis.

Dr. Christophersen has extensive international experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean as an economic development consultant, both long- and short-term working for clients such as USAID and The World Bank. He has worked in nearly 70 countries and served as team leader on projects involving economic modeling, project designs and evaluations, natural resource management assessments, planning, feasibility and recurrent cost studies, training needs assessments, training in economic and financial analysis, economics of ecotourism, and environmental assessments from the economics perspective. Before Emsi, Dr. Christophersen was a Senior Manager for the International Resources Group (1983–2001), Associate Professor at the University of Idaho (1977–1983), and an adjunct associate professor at Washington State University (1992–1998). He is fluent in English and Norwegian, and nearly fluent in French.