Agricultural and Resource Policy

Ellen Bruno

Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension
Agricultural economics, Water resource economics

J. Keith Gilless

Professor Emeritus
Agricultural & Resource Economics
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University and Jepson Herbaria
Forest economics and management, wildfire protection planning, regional economics, development

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas

Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor in Agricultural Economics and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Department Chair
Industrial organization, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, food policy, environmental regulation

Alain de Janvry

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Development economics, agriculture for development, technological innovations, rural institutions, payments for environmental services

Brian Wright

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
agricultural and resource economics, dynamic stochastic markets for storable commodities, innovation and intellectual property, agricultural policy, industrial organization, genetic resource conservation

David Zilberman

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Agricultural and nutritional policy, economics of technological change, economics of natural resources and micro-economic theory

Emma Wu Awarded the 2025 RCNR Melis Medal

December 9, 2025
EEP student Emma Wu is the recipient of this year's Melis Medal for her Honors thesis "The Role of Soft-Bottomed Reaches in Increasing Aquatic and Riparian Vegetation Abundance," mentored by Professor Theodore Granthan (ESPM) and Professor Michael Anderson (ARE). Congratulations Emma!

Gordon Rausser

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Agricultural & Resource Economics
Agricultural economics, applied econometrics, futures and options markets, industrial organization and antitrust analysis, natural resource and environmental economics, public policy and economic regulation

Alexandra Hill

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension
Agricultural Labor, Productivity, Policy Analysis, Air Pollution & Agriculture, Agricultural Production Economics

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

George Pardee Jr. Family Chair of International Sustainable Development | Associate Professor
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Development Economics, Urban Economics, Political Economy