🟢 = related to climate change
Policy
Supreme Court Briefing (2022) "BRIEF OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS" in "NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL ET AL. v. ROSS, SECRETARY OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, ET AL. " case, cited in the Supreme Court Ruling (5/11/2023). My most rewarding citation!
Public presentations not directly linked to individual research papers
2025 Testimony before the CA Assembly Select Committee on Alternative Protein Innovation Video 🟢
2025 OliverWyman-EIU Webinar "From Policy o Action: Development Finance and Biodiversity" Keynote 🟢
2024 European Vegan Summit Interview Highlights 🟢
2024 Vegan Women Summit "Careers in Alternative Protein Space". Moderator 🟢
2024 TedX Santa Cruz "Funding Climate solutions" 🟢 Coverage in Lookout SC Youtube link
2024 “Addressing post-pandemic challenges and looking forward, the analysts’ perspective” panel at BIS-ECB-Banco de Espana 2nd "External Statistics" conference
2023 Reducetarian Summit "How to Design Research and Monitor, Measure, and Evaluate our Work" panel 🟢 Video
2023 University of Luxembourg & PWC "Academia Meets Industry" keynote "Climate Risks and Financial Institutions" 🟢 Slides Summary
2023 Emerging Markets Group (EMG) and European Central Bank Workshop keynote "Private Financing of Climate Solutions?" 🟢 Slides
2023 Fintech Conference: Trends in Fintech and Sustainable Finance "Sustainable Finance" 🟢 Slides.
2023 Slugs and Steins (UCSC Alumni) faculty lecture series "An Economist Perspective on Climate Change and Global Inequality" 🟢 Video Slides
2023 EGROW Foundation panel on climate finance 🟢
2023 UCSC Economics Forum Luncheon hosted by UCSC and sponsored by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce
2021 EGROW Webinar "Economic Spillovers and Contagion" Slides Video
2021 Animal Law Symposium - presentation on subsidies in Animal Ag (along with presentations by other panelists). Slides 🟢
2021 UCSC Confronting Climate Change - Food Security in a Changing World. 🟢
2021 Good Food Conference - Growing the Talent Pipeline for our Future Food System (panelist). Video 🟢
Media quotes and podcasts (not linked to specific research papers)
The Journalist's Resource "A journalist's guide to the climate risk data market" (May 2025) 🟢
Econofact Chat "Can We Mitigate Climate Disasters?" (February 2025) 🟢
2025 "Cutting Edge" with Chris Benner KSQD Cutting Edge Episode #307 🟢
"Species Unite" S10.E9. "Most rational vegan" (September 2023) 🟢
Money FM 89.3 Singapore "Morning shot: How Economic Consequences of Extreme Natural Disasters Could Have a Cascading Effect on You" (September 2023) 🟢
Reuters "US pork firms split over Congress bill to overturn California animal welfare law" (August 2023)
"Our Hen House" Podcast episode 686 with David Meyer (May 2023) 🟢
Marketplace Morning Report "Big banks are succeeding at turning a profit, struggling to meet climate commitments" (April 2023) 🟢
The World "The risk of banking 'contagion'" (March 2023)
Sustain Change and Growth Podcast "Animal Agriculture and Climate Change. Any good reasons to eat meat?" with Dilyara Salakhova Youtube Spotify (2022) 🟢
Santa Fe New Mexican "Changing climate is costing New Mexico billions of dollars, study says" (November 2022) 🟢
Politico E&E News "SEC climate rule sparks backlash from business groups" (June 2022) 🟢
Econofact Chat "The Economic Implications of Climate Change" (February 2022) 🟢
UCSC Profile story (Jan. 2022) 🟢
National Geographic "California voted to improve pig welfare. The pork industry is facing a reckoning" (August 2021)
Global Perspectives (2019)