Esha D. Zaveri
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Appointments
 2019-           Affiliated Scholar, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
 2017-           World Bank Group, Economist,Water Global Practice, Washington D.C.
 2016-17      Stanford University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
                      Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and the Department of Earth System Science

      
Education
2016            Dual-Ph.D. Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (AEREC) & Demography,
                     The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 
2010            M.S. Economics, Boston College, Boston, MA 
2009            M.A. Economics, University of Mumbai, India  [Gold Medalist, Rank 1st]
2007            B.A. Economics and Statistics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India [ Merit Honor]

Research Fields
Environmental & Agricultural Economics, Water Resources, Development, Food Security, Climate Change, Demography

Skills
Computer Packages: Stata, R, ArcGIS, GeoDa, GAMS, LaTeX, MSOffice
Languages: English (Native), Hindi (Native), Gujarati (Fluent), Marathi (Intermediate), French (basic)

Honors and Awards
2015- 2016  M.E. John Applied Research Endowment Award
                      Pennsylvania State University, for outstanding achievement in applied research 
2015             Energy, Environmental Economics & Policy Initiative (EEEPI) Travel Award, Pennsylvania State University 
2015             Winner, Poster Session at Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference
2015             1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences  Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014             Nomination and acceptance to Gamma Sigma Delta
2014             1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences  Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014             Full Scholarship, EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
2014             Graduate Student Travel Award, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
2014             Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference Scholarship Award           
2012             Future Leaders Forum Fellowship, Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Pennsylvania State University 

AEREC 597B - Computational Economics, Spring 2014, 2015
CED 201-  Introduction to Environmental & Resource Economics, Spring 2014 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Boston College 
EC 202 - Macroeconomics Theory, Fall 2009, Spring 2010

Mentorship 
Mentor to high school student, Stanford Earth Young Investigators program, Summer 2017

Academic Service
Summer Methodology Workshop Committee, Demography Program, PSU, 2014-15
​Demography Graduate Advisory Committee, PSU, 2013-14 

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