Dr. James N. Sanchirico
Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis

James N. Sanchirico received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Davis. After working nine years in Washington D.C. as a Fellow and then a Senior Fellow with Resources for the Future (an independent, non-profit environmental policy think-tank), he returned to UC Davis as an Associate Professor in the Department of environmental Science and Policy.

His main research interests include the economic analysis of policy design and implementation for marine and terrestrial species conservation, the development of economic-ecological models for forecasting the effects of resource management policies on the economics and ecology, and the control and prevention of invasive species.

He communicates his research in economic and natural science peer-reviewed journals, including Science, U.S. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. An important part of Dr. Sanchirico’s research philosophy is communicating the results of the research to non-academic audiences. His research has also been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Science News, National Public Radio Science Fridays, The Economist, Providence Journal, and Greenwire News Service.

In addition to serving on NOAA's Science Advisory Board, he is a member of the Science and Technical Panel Expert Committee, U.N. Global Environmental Facility, the editorial councils at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a past associate editor at Marine Resource Economics. He recently served on the National Research Council’s committee to review the U.S. Ocean Research Priorities Plan.