Grace Johns, PhD
Senior Associate
Grace is responsible for economic and financial studies for Hazen, including the monetization of benefits that reflect stakeholder willingness-to-pay for water and wastewater services. She is regarded as an expert in economic and financial feasibility evaluations related to water, wastewater, stormwater, agriculture, tourism, and land use. Grace has provided expert review of economic impact modeling tools for US government agencies.
- Areas of Expertise
- Water resource economics and benefits valuation
- Survey research
- Statistics and econometrics
- Agricultural economics
- Full-cost accounting
- Market and non-market valuation
- Economic impact studies
- Recreation and instream uses
- Water utility financial modeling and rate setting
- Economic and financial feasibility studies
- Benefit-cost analysis and triple bottom line analysis
- Professional Activities
- Water Research Foundation (WRF), Technical Advisory Committee
- American Water Works Association (AWWA)
- Education
- PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, University of California
- BS, Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida
