6:15 PM - 8:45 PM (PST)

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David Lobell, Stanford University
David Lobell is the Benjamin M. Page Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science and the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He is also the William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research (SIEPR). He earned a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University (2000), a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University (2005), and was a Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His work has been recognized with various awards, including the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (2010), a Macarthur Fellowship (2013), the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences (2022) and election to the National Academy of Sciences (2023).