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Jason Morrison is director of the Pacific Institute's Economic Globalization and the Environment Program, where he is currently studying private sector environmental initiatives, performance-based regulatory innovation, and voluntary international standards. Since 1997, Mr. Morrison has focused on the international environmental management standards - ISO 14000. He is a member of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 207 (the body that develops the ISO 14000 standards), as well as a U.S. delegate to TC 207 on standards pertaining to ecolabeling and environmental communications. He currently serves as Chair of the ISO/TC 207 NGO Task Group.

Mr. Morrison has also been investigating the emerging use of Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) in public policy. He is a board member of the Multi-State Working Group on EMSs (MSWG), a coalition of state and federal agencies investigating the role of EMSs in performance-based regulatory innovation. He sits on the EMS Advisory Council for NSF International Strategic Registrations, Ltd. and is an Advisory Committee member of the National Biosolids Partnership EMS Initiative. Mr. Morrison holds a Master's Degree from Boston University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. In 1994, Mr. Morrison was a fellow with the Americans and World Affairs Fellowship Program in Berkeley, California.

In addition to working on issues relating to international environmental standards and regulatory innovation, Mr. Morrison has conducted research on the sustainable management of freshwater resources and water planning in the southwestern U.S. His past research includes work on restoration of the Salton Sea in California and binational water management in the Colorado River border region.

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