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Dr. Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young
National University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Doctoral Thesis: "Economic Adjustment Policies and the Environment: A Case Study of Brazil”: Advisor: David Pearce); Master of Economics, Institute of Industrial Economics, National University Rio de Janeiro, 1992 (Master’s Thesis: “Sustainable Rents from Mineral Extraction in Brazil”; Advisors: Joáo Carlos Ferraz e Ronaldo Serôa da Motta); Post-Graduate in Public Policy, United Nations/ILPES/Cepal (Santiago, Chile), 1990 (with distinction); Bachelor in Economic Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administration, National University of Rio de Janeiro, 1986 (graduated cum laude). Adjunct Professor and Coordinator of Research Group for Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development, Institute of Economics, National University of Rio de Janeiro. Consultant to various research projects on economic development and environmental economics. Areas of interest: Global Warming, Socio-Economic Causes of Biodiversity Loss, Trade and the Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Economic Instruments for Environmental Management, Environmental Accounting and Natural Resource Valuation, with a range of publications on these topics. President of the Brazilian Society of Ecological Economics (ECO_ECO), 1996-99.
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Dr. David Johnson
Economics Department, Harvard University
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Dr. John A. Dixon,
Lead Environmental Economist (retired)
World Bank Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Professor John Dixon is widely known for his work on applied environmental economics, especially the valuation of environmental resources, and has published numerous books on economic valuation and its applications to various ecosystems, as well as many articles on these and other themes. Before joining the World Bank in 1990, Professor Dixon was a researcher at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, and also worked with the Ford Foundation in Indonesia. His recent work has focused on the economics of parks and protected areas, especially marine parks and tourism. Recent professional work includes activities in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Professor Dixon holds undergraduate degrees in Chinese and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.
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Dr. Jorge Madeira Nogueira
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Jorge is Professor and Head of the Economics Department of the University of Brasilia (UNB) in Brazil, where he has been working since 1983. Jorge received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and completed his PhD at the University of London in 1982. Between 1991 and 1995 he was a visiting Professor at the University of Cornell as a Fulbright Scholar. Jorge has published extensively on the economics of agriculture and the environment in Brazil and abroad.
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Dr. Linwood Pendleton
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA
Linwood is currently an Associate Professor in the Program in Environmental Science and Engineering in UCLA’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Linwood has been teaching with CSF since 1999 and has extensive experience both in the United States and abroad with environmental valuation, coastal resource management, and the economics of marine protected areas. Linwood has worked internationally on recreation demand of tropical coral reefs and Costa Rican National Parks, and on issues of dams, non-timber forestry, and the economic causes of tropical deforestation in Latin America and Africa. His current research focuses on the economics of environmental goods and services, especially those in the coastal zone, including the National Ocean Economics Project, the Southern California Beach Valuation Project and the California Regional Study of the Coastal Ocean Observing System. Linwood has a Masters in Biology with a focus in Tropical Ecology from Princeton University, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a PhD in Natural and Environmental Resource Economics from Yale University.
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Dr. Ricardo Godoy
Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
Ricardo has been doing long-term ecological and socioeconomic research among lowland Amerindian populations in Central America and Bolivia using standard methods of data collection. His research has focused on the effect of market economies on various indicators of the quality of life and on the habitat of indigenous people. A former professor of Anthropology at Harvard and the University of Florida, Dr. Godoy now teaches at Brandeis University. He is a regular member of CSF’s training team.
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Dr. Ronaldo Seroa da Motta
Santa Úrsula University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ronaldo is currently the Environmental Studies Coordinator for IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research), a federal research institute, and a Professor of Environmental Economics at Santa Úrsula University, Rio de Janeiro. He has conducted diverse projects relating to environmental policy, market mechanisms, economic valuation, social accounting of natural resources, and distributional effects and economics of environmental regulation. Additionally, he has conducted research for World Bank projects, has been the regional coordinator for Latin America for a UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) project, and has been the Brazilian coordinator for Environmental Accounting of Forests project of FAO/United Nations.
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Dr. Sarah Cordero
Central American Institute for Business Administration (INCAE),
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Sarah is an Assistant Professor at the Central American Institute for Business Administration (INCAE), with a focus in environmental economics and project appraisal. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and she received a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1992. In addition to INCAE, she has also been a professor in the Program on Investment Appraisal and Management at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Sarah has extensive teaching experience at various institutions including MIT, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and the Technological Institute of Costa Rica. Sarah taught in CSF’s recent course in Costa Rica, and in the past she has taught other short programs in Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
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Dr. Steven Hackett
Humboldt State University, California, USA
Steve is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Humboldt State University in northern California, and has published numerous journal articles, books, and technical reports relating to economics and public policy, including the textbook Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy and the Sustainable Society 3rd edition (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006). Steve has also been active in regional economic development, including research on California's Dungeness crab fishery, and he served as founding director of HSU's Office for Economic and Community Development. In recent years he has served as a senior consulting economist for various regional jurisdictions, and has received an American Planning Association award for economic development planning. Steve's research has been supported by extramural grants and contracts from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the California Sea Grant Program, the California Seafood Council, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Institute of the North Coast. In recognition of his research on regional economic issues, Steve was selected as Humboldt State University's Scholar of the Year for 2005.
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