David Zilberman is a Professor, Extension specialist and holder of the Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley. His areas of expertise include agricultural and environmental economics and policy, water, marketing, risk management, the economics of innovation, , biotechnology, and supply chains. 

He is the recipient of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, and the 2018-19 President of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). 

He is an elected member of the USA National academy of Science, and European academy of science and arts, a Fellow of the AAEA, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. 

Among his awards is the 2005 and 2010 AAEA Publication of Enduring Quality Award and the UNESCO International Cannes Prize for Water and the Economy (2000). 

He is one of the Founders of the International Consortium of Applied Bio-economy Research (ICABR). David served as the chair of his department, director of the Giannini Foundation, Founding co-director of the Beahrs ELP and founding academic director of o the MDP at Berkeley. He is coeditor of ARE-Update and the Annual Review of Resource Economics. 

Specialization

Agricultural and Environmental Policy

Economics of Production, Technological Change, and Risk

Economics of Natural Resources

Microeconomic Theory

Marketing

Education

Tel Aviv University, Israel B. A. Economics, Statistics

University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics*

*Dissertation topic: “A Putty-Clay Approach to Environmental Quality Control”