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Erik Lichtenberg
Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics
2102 Symons Hall
Phone: (301) 405-1279
Fax: (301) 314-9091
E-mail: elichtenberg@arec.umd.edu
I am a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. I've been on the faculty here since 1988. Before coming to Maryland, I was Director of Environmental Economics at the Western Consortium for Public Health in Berkeley, California and a Pew Fellow in Health Policy at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.
I have a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley. My undergraduate degree (from the University of Chicago) is in linguistics. I tell my colleagues that linguistics (post-Chomsky, at least) and economics have a lot in common, but they don't believe me. I speak Italian, some Spanish, and some French.
My experience in policy positions includes a year as senior economist for agriculture, natural resources (1993-1994), and international trade on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and service as a committee member on National Research Council committees on precision agriculture (1996-1997) and genetically modified pest protected plants (1999-2000) and as a consultant to the committee on the future of pesticides in U.S. agriculture (1998-2000). I spent the summer of 1998 as a Fulbright Scholar teaching the economics of pest management in Argentina.