I am a resource economist who specializes in global warming. Born in South Korea, I studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale University and received a PhD degree from Yale University in 2006 majoring in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics with a dissertation on behavioral models of global warming. Since 2003, I have worked with the World Bank on various climate change projects in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Currently, I am working with the University of Sydney as a Senior Fellow (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US) at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. I held Professor positions in Scotland and in Spain in the past. 

I received several academic honors including the Chancellor's Honor from Seoul National University at the graduation ceremony in 2000. I was a President Fellow for public service at Yale University in 2002. I was awarded an Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in June 2011 for developing the G-MAP model of adaptation to climate change. Beyond the academia, I am honored to be listed as a climate economist by the Marquis Who's Who in the World, an America's biographer.

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