Randy T. Simmons is the Charles G. Koch Professor of Political Economy at the Economics and Finance Department of Utah State University. He is also a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana, and mayor of Providence, Utah. His areas of interest include free-market environmentalism, property rights, and wildlife. He is the coauthor of the book Beyond Politics: Politics, Market, and the Failure of Bureaucracy. Simmons has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oregon.