Randal O'Toole

Randal O'Toole (born 1952) is an American public policy analyst. The majority of O'Toole's work has focused on public lands, land-use regulation, and transportation, particularly light rail. He frequently criticizes proposals for passenger rail systems.

He had been associated with the Cato Institute as an adjunct scholar since 1995 and a senior fellow from 2007 to 2021. O'Toole was the McCluskey Visiting Fellow for Conservation at Yale University in 1998, and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1999) and Utah State University (2000). O'Toole studied economics at the University of Oregon at the graduate level for three years but did not receive a degree, he also holds a B.S. Degree in forest management and geology from the University of Oregon. O'Toole's private consultancy is known as the Thoreau Institute.

O'Toole usually refers to himself as "The Antiplanner". He was fired by the Cato Institute in December 2021.