Thomas P. Lyon holds the Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce at the Michigan Business School. Professor Lyon earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University and his doctorate at Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and at the University of Bonn, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy.

He spent the academic year 2002/2003 as a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and 2003/2004 as a visiting economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lyon serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and his research has been published in such journals as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Professor Lyon’s primary research interest is the interplay between corporate strategy and public policy, which he has pursued in a number of application areas, including corporate environmentalism, electric utility investment practices, natural gas contracting, innovation in the health care sector, and the introduction of competition in regulated industries.

His book Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy, published by Cambridge University Press in October 2004, is the first rigorous economic analysis of this increasingly important topic. Professor Lyon’s teaching experience includes managerial economics, business and government, game theory, business strategy, and the management of innovation.