Roderick G. Eggert

Research Professor
Deputy Director of Critical Materials Innovation Hub

Roderick G. Eggert is deputy director of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a research consortium established by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2013, to accelerate innovation in energy materials. Between 1988 and 2006, he was editor of Resources Policy, an international journal of mineral economics and policy. Between 1998 and 2013, he was Economics and Business Division Director.

His research and teaching focus on mineral economics and public policy – especially, in recent years, on critical minerals and materials. He chaired the U.S. National Research Council committee that wrote the 2008 book, Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy (National Academies Press). He has testified on critical minerals and materials at committee hearings of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and European Parliament, and the Canadian House of Commons.

Education

• PhD, Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 1983
• MS, Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Pennsylvania State University, 1980
• BA, Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, 1978

Research Areas

Areas of Specialization

• Natural resource and environmental economics
• Applied microeconomics

Areas of Application

• Mineral exploration
• Mining, minerals, and sustainable development
• Mineral policy
• Mineral and metal markets