B Starr Mc Mullen

B. Starr McMullen has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley where her work in transportation economics was supported by a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Professor of Economics as well as Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, she served as Chair of the Economics Department from 2001-2005. In addition, she has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, the University of California-Irvine and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Montreal.

At the national level Professor McMullen is President of the Transportation Research Forum (TRF). She is a past President of TPUG, the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association (AEA), which is the oldest AEA affiliate group.

Professor McMullen is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum (JTRF) and Transportation Research: Part E and is past editor of Research in Transportation Economics.

At the state level Professor McMullen is in her third term as a member of the Oregon Governor's Council of Economic Advisors and has served two terms on the Oregon Department of Transportation's Highway Cost Allocation Advisory Board.

Professor McMullen was recently named the 2009 Researcher of the Year by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). She is also the administrator for the Furman Fellowships in Transportation Economics.