Randal O'Toole

Who is Randal O'Toole?

Randal O'Toole is an American public policy analyst. The majority of O'Toole's work has focused on private land rights, particularly against public land use regulations and light rail.

Since 1995, he has been associated with the Cato Institute as an adjunct scholar and frequent anti-light rail campaigner. O'Toole was the McCluskey Visiting Fellowship for Conservation at Yale University in 1998, and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Utah State University. O'Toole studied economics at the University of Oregon, but did not receive a degree in economics. He is the contact listed for the Thoreau Institute.