Benjamin Zycher is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, the President of Benjamin Zycher Economics Associates, and an adjunct Professor of Economics and Business at the Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics, California State University, Channel Islands. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board of the quarterly journal Regulation, of the advisory council of USA for Innovation, and the advisory council of Consumer Alert.

His previous positions include:

Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research;
Senior economist at the RAND Corporation;
Member of the Board of Directors of the Western Economic Association International;
Adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles;
Vice president for research at the Milken Institute;
Founding editor of the quarterly public policy journal Jobs & Capital; and
Senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for the first two years of the Reagan Administration.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (1979) and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley (1974).