Ethan Kelley

Ethan Kelley is a Legislative Analyst at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University. He is tasked in maintaining the occupational database and assists with research at the Knee Center. He has published op-eds and blog posts within occupational licensing. He has published a paper with colleagues on the licensing database maintained by the center; the paper was published in the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy in 2024. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from West Virginia University in 2021.  

Before joining the Knee Center, Ethan participated as a research assistant with the Bureau of Business and Economic Research in the spring of his senior year at West Virginia University. In that time, he and other others drafted an economic forecast and report for the Huntington area in Southern West Virginia. The final report is published under West Virginia University’s Research Repository and the Bureau of Business and Economic Research’s website.