Christiansen, Eugene Martin, 1944-

Eugene Martin Christiansen is a consultant and chairman of Christiansen Capital Advisors, LLC. He has worked as a consultant for the commercial gaming and entertainment industries since 1976. He has written extensively on gambling legalization and regulation, the economic impacts of legalized gambling, taxation of gambling and entertainment, Native American gaming, and pari-mutuel wagering. His book, The Business

of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America (co-authored with Vicki Abt and James F. Smith), was published by the University Press of Kansas in 1985. Christiansen is a member of the National Council on Problem Gambling and the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.