PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-present Director, Giannini Foundation of
Agricultural Economics
1999-present Robinson Chair, Agricultural and
Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Co-Director,
Center for Sustainable Resource Development.
1994-2000 Chair, Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of California at Berkeley; Director, Center for Sustainable
Resource Development.
1989-1994 Vice Chairman, Agricultural and Resource
Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
1987 Professor of Agricultural and Resource
Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economist in the Agricultural
Experiment Station, University of California at
Berkeley.
1983-1987 Associate Professor of Agricultural and
Resource Economics and Associate Agricultural and Resource Economist in
the Agricultural Experiment Station,
University of California at
Berkeley.
1979-1983 Assistant Professor of Agricultural and
Resource Economics and Assistant Agricultural and Resource Economist in
the Agricultural Experiment Station,
University of California at
Berkeley.
1977-1978 Postgraduate Research
Agricultural Economist, University of California at Berkeley.
1977-1978 Lecturer (part time),
School of Business, San Francisco State University (subjects:
Managerial Economics, Operation Management), 1976-1978; Lecturer
(part
time), School of Business, Lincoln University, San Francisco
(subjects: Computer Programming, International Trade).
1973-1976 Research Assistant, University of
California at Berkeley.
1971-1973 Teaching Assistant, Department of
Economics, Tel Aviv University, Israel (subject: Econometrics).
1968-1973 Programmer and Systems Analyst, Koor
Computers, Tel Aviv, Israel.
AWARDS
American Agricultural Economics Association, Publication of Enduring
Quality Award (2005) for "Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in
Developing Countries: A Survey" (Economic Development and
Cultural Change, 33:2, January 1985, 255-298).
American Agricultural Economics Association, Quality of Research
Discovery Award (2002) for "Environmental and Distributional Impacts of
Conservation Targeting Strategies" (Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, 41, May 2001), 333-350).
U.C. Berkeley Alumnus of the Week (January 27, 2003).
International Cannes Prize for Water and the Economy (2000).
Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association (1998).
American Agricultural Economics Association Honorable Mention, Quality
of Research Discovery Award (1990) for “Input Allocation in Multicrop
Systems.”
American Agricultural Economics Association Honorable Mention, Quality
of Research Discovery Award (1984) for “Stochastic Structure, Farm
Size, and Technology Adoption in Developing Agriculture.”
Western Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Published
Research in Agricultural Economics Award (1984) for “Estimation of
Multi-Crop Production “