Alexander P. Moscoso

Alex Moscoso is an economist and former federal executive with over a decade of experience directing economic, policy, and financial risk analyses for the U.S. government. Mr. Moscoso served as the chief economist for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and, previously, for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Leading teams of economists, engineers, and health scientists, he evaluated national safety and security policies involving a range of consumer products, public health issues, and infrastructure challenges.

Mr. Moscoso has provided public statements before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and has privately briefed Congressional staff and legal counsel on topics that include health benefits, supply chain impacts, and regulatory enforcement.

Senior executive service (SES) in the federal government

During his tenure as chief economist at CPSC and TSA, Mr. Moscoso managed complex regulatory strategies and applied data-driven analyses to quantify the societal impacts of diverse hazards. His experience includes:

• Managing the development of high-profile regulatory impact analyses, including a major study on proposed table saw regulations in coordination with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), balancing injury prevention benefits against market monopoly risks
• Overseeing the Injury Cost Model (ICM), a nationally recognized tool integrating millions of anonymized hospital and health records with cost, wage, and jury award data, to quantify the burden of consumer product injuries
• Directing financial analyses to assess companies’ ability to pay civil penalties or implement recalls
• Modeling long-term health outcomes from national safety and security threats to inform agency policy

Advancing regulatory science and risk valuation

Mr. Moscoso’s technical research has focused on benefit-cost analyses and quantifying health risks. He represented the CPSC on the Subcommittee on Frontiers of Benefit-Cost Analysis, a multiagency effort to advance benefit-cost analysis modeling and research. He also engaged with international working groups, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to refine economic modeling for global consumer product hazards. His research contributions involve the application of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) and cost-of-illness studies to refine the valuation of regulatory health benefits.

Before his federal service, Mr. Moscoso served as an economist for global technology and engineering firms where he specialized in transportation economic modeling and infrastructure design.