Adrienne Ohler
Associate Director of Policy Research
University of Missouri
Adrienne Ohler is the Financial Research Institute’s associate director of policy research and an associate professor of applied economics at the University of Missouri.
Her research focuses on environmental and energy economics, particularly at the intersection of regulatory economics, energy policy, and externalities affecting environmental and population health. She uses secondary-data analysis and simulation modeling to examine how policy changes and institutional structures shape health, environmental, and economic outcomes.
She also serves as an associate extension professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri.
Previously, she served as a research associate professor at the University of Missouri. Before joining Missouri, she spent more than a decade at Illinois State University, where she served as an associate professor and assistant professor of economics, as well as director of outreach for the Institute for Regulatory Policy Studies. She also served as a board member of the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development.
Earlier in her career, she was a graduate student fellow at the Property and Environmental Research Center and a Roland Burris Fellow in the Illinois Office of the Comptroller.
She holds a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in statistics from Washington State University, as well as a master’s in economics from Montana State University-Bozeman. She also holds a bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
