Ross McKitrick (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis.

He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.

McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying the scientific consensus on climate change,[1] including co-authoring the book Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, published in 2002.

He is the author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press.

[3][4] With Christopher Essex he co-authored the 2002 Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, a book that propagates climate change denial[5] and was a runner-up for the Donner Prize.