I am a Professor who holds the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U.C. Berkeley. My areas of expertise include agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation, risk and marketing, and water, pest control; biotechnology and climate change. I am a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and the Association of Environmental and Resource economics (AERE), member of European Academy of Sciences and Art. I am the recipient of the 2000 Cannes Water and the Economy Award. I am also the president elect of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). I won the AAEA 2002 and 2007 Quality of Research Discovery Award and the 2005 and 2009 AAEA Publication of Enduring quality award. I edited 21 books and coauthored over 350 papers in refereed journals. I received my B. A. in Economics and Statistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and my Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. I have served as a consultant to the World Bank, FAO, USDA, EPA, and CDFA. I have also served as Department Chair from 1994 to1999, and was on the boards of the AAEA and C-FARE and on three NRC panels.
I am married to Leorah Abouav-Zilberman, have 3 children (Shie, Eyal and Aytan), and 6 adorable grandchildren. I am the codirector of the BEAHRS Environmental Leadership Program in UC Berkeley. I am the Faculty Director of the Master of Development Practice.
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