Charles Goodhue is an ERG vice president and senior economist with expertise in the ocean economy, transportation, and the intersection of economics and resilience. For over 15 years at ERG, he has developed and implemented surveys and structured interviews, developed valuation methodologies, performed benefit-cost analyses, and implemented economic impact analyses across a wide array of projects.

He extensively supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management, helping measure the ocean’s economic contribution to the economy and develop methodologies that value resilience and coastal management activities. He has led economic analyses for state and local community resilience action plans, estimating the benefits and costs of reducing transportation, building, and energy emissions through electrification and efficiency measures, as well as the benefits and costs of adapting to flooding. He leads ERG’s work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Community Resilience Group supporting research to model community vulnerability and disaster recovery. Charles has also authored the socioeconomic sections of several National Shoreline Management Studies for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources and supported several other economic analyses for that agency. He also leads complex multimodal surveys, including the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Socioeconomic Survey, bringing together multidisciplinary teams of surveyors, statisticians, geospatial specialists, analysts, and field coordinators to gather data in remote parts of all of the U.S. territories.

Charles holds a B.A. in both economics and chemistry from Brandeis University and an M.A. in chemistry from Harvard University. He is also a Project Management Professional and Certified Lean Project Manager. Outside work, he enjoys skiing and coaching his three kids’ soccer teams.