Faculty

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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
Bio

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

Bio

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

Bio

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

Bio

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