Faculty Members: Food and Resource Economics
Dr. Kelleen Wiseman
Academic Director
Teaching: FRE 516 Financial and Marketing Management in Agri-food Industries
Research Area:
- Sustainability Reporting for Food Processing and Agri-Food Firms
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Green Financing and Investment
Dr. Rick Barichello
Professor
Teaching: FRE 505 Agricultural and Resource Policy Analysis
Research Area:
- World Food Markets
- Trade Policy and Project Evaluation Tools
- Economic Implications of Climate Change on Global Food and Trading Markets
Dr. Joséphine Gantois
Assistant Professor
Teaching: FRE 527 Environmental Data Analytics
Research Area:
- Ecological Footprint Assessment in Natural and Agricultural Landscapes
- Biodiversity Impacts and Economic Feasibility of Agri-Food Production
- Monitoring Ecological Outcomes at Large Scales
Dr. Sumeet Gulati
Professor
Teaching: FRE 527 Economics of Environmental Policy
Research Area:
- Wildlife Conservation, Economics of Urban Transportation
- Politics and Policy of Carbon Tax, Wildfires, and Urban Transportation
Dr. Matias Margulis
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food System
Teaching: FRE 531 Global Food and Resource Governance
Research Area:
- Global Governance and Food Policy
- Human Rights, International Law and Food Policy
- World Trade and Food Security
- Global Political Economy for Food and Food Aid
Dr. Carol McAusland
Professor
Teaching: FRE 502 Food Market Analysis
Research Area:
- Environmental Policy and Regulated Markets
- Carbon Footprints and Carbon Tax
- Environmental Impacts of International Trade
Dr. Karen Taylor
Lecturer and Adjunct Professor
Teaching: FRE 515 Agribusiness Management
Research Area:
- Agricultural Banking and Corporate Finance
- Banking Practices and Sustainable Agri-food Sector
Dr. James Vercammen
Professor
Teaching: FRE 501 Strategic Economic Analysis of Agri-Food Markets
Research Area:
- Agricultural and Conservation Policy Assessment
- Economics of Commodity Markets
- Futures Markets and Risk Management for Sustainable Food Production
Instructors: MFRE
Dr. Tim Silk
Associate Professor of Teaching, Marketing and Behavioural Science Division
Sauder School of Business
Teaching: FRE 518 Survey Design and Data Analysis
Dr. Rashid Sumaila
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
(SPPGA), Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics, Tier 1
Teaching: FRE 523 The Economics of World Fisheries
Dr. Gordon Munro
Professor Emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics
Associate of the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia
Teaching: FRE 523 The Economics of World Fisheries
Asif Neloy
Lecturer Douglas College, Machine Learning & Data Science Specialist and Quantitative Research Professional
Teaching: FRE 521D Data Analytics in Climate, Food and the Environment
Jaqueline Wong
Commodity Trader at Olympic Industries ULC
Teaching: FRE 517 Futures Trading of Agricultural Commodities
Kurt Niquidet
Vice President and Chief Economist, BC Council of Forest Industries
Adjunct Professor, UBC Master of Food and Resource Economics and Faculty of Forestry
Teaching: FRE 530 Econometrics with Time Series Data
Sid Mehta
Founder & Principal, Greenworks Inc
Teaching: FRE 521F ESG in Global Food Systems: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities
Nishant Kahlia
Strategic Sourcing Analyst, UBC Instructor
Teaching: Commodity Analysis Workshop Series