Prof Ariel Dinar

Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States. His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behaviour associated with the management of natural resources and the environment. Dr Dinar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Since then, he has spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water and climate change economics and policy. In 2008, Dr Dinar assumed a professorship at UCR. Dr Dinar founded the Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014.

Dr Dinar's recent research addresses global water issues such as the social and economic impacts of groundwater-induced land subsidence, decision support models to assist negotiation in international water conflicts, and the development of hydro-economic modelling approaches to domestic and international river basins.

Dr Dinar has been an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; he was named a 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 260 publications in peer-reviewed journals, policy outlets and book chapters. He co-authored and edited 32 books and textbooks. He founded the technical journals Strategic Behavior and the Environment and Water Economics and Policy, for the latter, he serves as an Editor-in-Chief. He founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Global Issues in Water Policy.