Terry L. Anderson is the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; past president of the Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; and a professor emeritus at Montana State University. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1972 and then began teaching at Montana State University from then until 1997.

He was recognized with several awards for his outstanding teaching. Anderson has been a visiting professor or scholar at Stanford University, the University of Basel, Oxford University, Clemson University, Cornell University, and Canterbury University. Since 1986, he has been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. In addition to publishing in professional journals, Anderson has been a frequent columnist in popular publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Safari Club’s Game Trails. Much of his career has focused on developing the ideas expressed in Free Market Environmentalism, the title of his co-authored book (third edition), which outlines how markets and property rights can solve environmental problems.

More recently he has focused his research and writing on how the ideas defining a free society apply to Native American economies. Of his thirty-nine books, four have laid the foundation for his Renewing Indigenous Economies project (indigenousecon.org). The most recent of these books is Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations. He lives in Montana with his wife, Monica, where they enjoy fishing, hunting, horseback riding, and skiing in Big Sky Country.

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