REPA Research - Members

Resource Economics & Policy Analysis

Forestry, Agriculture, Energy and Climate Economics Research

Members of the REPA Research Group
Professors
	G. Cornelis (Kees) van Kooten, PhD (Oregon State) - Professor and Canada Research Chair. Research Interests: Economics of Natural Resources, Forest & Agricultural Economics, Economics of Climate Change. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets by G.C. van Kooten and E.H. Bulte can be found here. Website: vkooten.net
	Daniel Rondeau, PhD (Cornell) - Professor. Research Interests: Environmental, Natural Resource, and Public Economics. Dr. Rondeau's latest book, Natural Resource Economics: Analysis, Theory, and Applications by J.M. Conrad and D. Rondeau, Cambridge University Press, can be found here.
Graduate Students
	Atefeh Zeinolebadi, BSc (Shahid Beheshti University), MA (Khatam University). Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics.
Research Associates & Assistants
	Linda Voss, BA (UVic) - REPA Administrative Officer and Research Assistant
Adjunct Researchers
	Sadia Afroz, MA (UVic)- Health data analyst at Island Health - Vancouver Island Health Authority. Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, International Trade.
	Esther Boere, PhD (Wageningen UR) - Research Scholar, Ecosystems Services and Management at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) Austria. Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Land Use, Risk Modelling.
	Tim Bogle,PhD (UVic) - Manager, Economic Anaylsis and Log Exports, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. Research Interests: Forest Economics and Policy, Natural Resource Modeling.
	Jun (Jon) Duan, PhD (UVic) - Senior Data Scientist, BC Ministry of Education and Child Care. Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Computational Economics.
	Craig Johnston, PhD (UVic) - Senior Economist of the Commodities Division in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada. Research Interests:Forest Economics and Risk Management.
	V. Susanna Laaksonen-Craig, PhD (UC Berkeley) - Director General for the NRC's Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre. Research Interests: Forest Economics, Climate.
	Xuan (Sheri) Liu, PhD (UVic) - Senior Analyst for the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI). Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Business Risk Management.
	Brennan McLachlan, MA(UVic) - PhD student at McGill University. Research Interests: Natural Resource Economics, Mathematical Programming, Applied Econometric Analysis.
	Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh, PhD (SFU) - Sessional Lecturer, UVic, Department of Economics. Research Interests: Forestry Modeling, Agricultural Economics.
	Kurt Niquidet, PhD (U of Groningen) - Vice President and Chief Economist at BC Council of Forest Industries. Research Interests: Natural Resource Economics, International Trade and Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Commodity Markets.
	Alyssa Russell, BSc (UVic). MA student at UBC. Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Computational Economics.
	Yin Shi, BA (Hubei University), MA (University of International Business and Economics). Current PhD student (UVic). Research Interests: Resource and Environmental Economics, Climate Change.
	Brad Stennes, PhD (UBC) - Director, Policy, Planning and Operations with Canadian Forest Service, based at Pacific Forestry Centre. Research Interests: B.C. Forest Sector Trade, Economics of Carbon Uptake in Forests.
	Tracy Stobbe, PhD (UVic) - Associate Professor, School of Business, Trinity Westerm University. Research Interests: Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Economics. Dissertation
	Baojing Sun, PhD (Northwest A&F University), MA (UVic) - Forest Economist with Canadian Forest Service, based at Pacific Forestry Centre. Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics.
	Lili Sun, PhD (UVic) - Forest Economist with Canadian Forest Service, based at Pacific Forestry Centre. Research Interests: Non-market Valuation, Climate Change, Forest Economics. Dissertation
	Sen Wang, PhD (UBC) - Associate Director for Agriculture and Agrifood Canada. Research Interests: Canada's Competitiveness in International Forest Products Market, Forest Economics and Policy.
	Patrick Withey, PhD (UVic) - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, St. Francis Xavier University. Research Interests: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics.
	Linda Wong, BA (UBC), MA (UVic). Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics.
	Rebecca Zanello, BSc (University of Alberta), MA (UVic). Current PhD student (USask). Research Interests: Agriculture and Natural Resource Economics.
	Zhen (Zach) Xu, PhD (UVic) -Economist, Climate Change, Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa. Research Interests: Forest Economics, Climate Mitigation, Adaptation.

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