Randal O'Toole Randal O'Toole is an economist with more than thirty years of experience studying government agencies and environmental issues, including public lands, forests, wildlife, urban growth, and transportation. In 1998, Yale University named him its McCluskey Conservation Fellow. In 1999 and 2001, he served as the Scaife Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2000, he was the Merrill Visiting Professor at Utah State University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and director of the American Dream Coalition.