Rob Moore is the principal for Scioto Analysis. Rob has worked as an analyst in the public and nonprofit sectors and has analyzed diverse issue areas such as economic development, environment, education, and public health. His specialty is applied microeconomic analysis of public policies and tradeoffs between efficiency and equity outcomes in economic development and social safety net programs. He is president of Gross National Happiness USA, a national grassroots organization promoting multidimensional measurement of well-being in society, and maintains memberships with the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, and the Ohio Performance Evaluators’ Group, the latter of which he serves as a board member and policy chair.

Before becoming an analyst, Rob was a community organizer in Omaha, Nebraska. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Denison University. He is active in his community as a board member for the Brewery District Community Association and is a professional registered parliamentarian with the National Association of Parliamentarians. In his free time, Rob enjoys travel, film, road biking, Dungeons & Dragons, and performing improvisational comedy. 

Rob can be reached at rob@sciotoanalysis.com.

Michael Hartnett is a policy analyst for Scioto Analysis. He holds a Masters of Science in Statistics from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Bates College. His focus is in using advanced statistical methods to better understand the effects of public policies and to promote evidence based decision making. He has previously done research on issues of gender equity and the criminal justice system. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing the guitar, winter sports, and cooking.

Michael can be reached at michael@sciotoanalysis.com.