Michael De Alessi, director of the Center for Private Conservation, specializes in marine conservation issues. The CPC is a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC-based public interest group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.

He received a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and an M.A. in Marine Policy from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. He is the author of Fishing for Solutions, and his articles on the oceans have appeared in such publications as New Scientist, Journal of Commerce, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal.

recent op-eds & articles

Entrepreneurs and the Environment: Michael De Alessi in The World and I
By Michael De Alessi, March 31, 2001

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recent studies

Earth Report 2000: The State of the World's Fisheries
By Michael De Alessi, November 20, 2000

Private Conservation and Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe: The Savé Valley and Bubiana Conservancies
By Michael De Alessi, December 31, 1999

Saving Fisheries without Property Rights: "Surgery with a Baseball Bat"
By Michael De Alessi, February 21, 1999

Private Reef Building in Alabama and Florida
By Michael De Alessi, June 1, 1996

Oysters and Willapa Bay
By Michael De Alessi, February 29, 1996

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