Terry Anderson is the executive director of PERC - the Center for Free Market Environmentalism, a think-tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and professor emeritus at Montana State University.

His work helped launch the idea of free market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the balance between markets and government in managing natural resources. Anderson is the author or editor of 26 books. Among these, Free Market Environmentalism which was coauthored with Donald Leal, received the 1992 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. A revised edition was published in 2001. Other books include Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997), also coauthored with Leal, and Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law, coedited with Fred S. McChesney (Princeton University Press, 2003). In addition, he has written a forthcoming book with P. J. Hill on The Not So Wild, Wild West and is currently editing a volume, You Have to Admit It's Getting Better—The Environment That Is, building on Bjørn Lomborg's controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. He has published widely in both professional journals and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fly Fisherman.

Anderson received his B.S. from the University of Montana in 1968 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 1972, after which he began his teaching career at Montana State University where he won several teaching awards. Anderson is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys fishing, skiing, and ice climbing. He is a skilled bow hunter and has hunted throughout Montana and in Africa.