dr. David Zilberman

Dr. David Zilberman, has been a professor in the agricultural and resource economics department at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1979. He is currently the director of the Giannini Foundation and a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. His research interests are in agricultural and nutritional policy, the economics of technological change, the economics of natural resources and microeconomic theory.

Dr. Zilberman received the American Agricultural Economics Association's Publication of Enduring Quality Award in 2005. In 2002, he was presented with the association's Quality of Research Discovery Award. He also has received the International Cannes Prize for Water and the Economy.