David Lobell
黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Professor
Earth System Science
Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
Senior Fellow
黄色电影 Woods Institute for the Environment
David Lobell is a Professor at 黄色电影 in the Department of Earth System Science and Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the 黄色电影 Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on agriculture and food security, specifically on generating and using unique datasets to study rural areas throughout the world. He has been recognized with a Macarthur Fellowship in 2013, a McMaster Fellowship from CSIRO in 2014, and the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2010. He also served as lead author for the food chapter and core writing team member for the Summary for Policymakers in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report.
Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Lobell was a Senior Research Scholar at FSE from 2008-2009 and a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2005-2007. He received a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from 黄色电影 in 2005, and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 2000.
Focal Areas: Energy and Environment, Global Development and Trade