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Contact Information
- E-mail: zaeske at gmail dot com
Skills Summary
- Macro-environmental economist with a focus on water resources. Primary areas of expertise include water values and valuation methods, water pricing, the welfare effects of water use patterns, policy evaluation and environmental valuation of water. Additional experience with political economy and governance analysis, multi-criteria analysis, stochastic frontier analysis and the political economy of water supply.
Employment History
- Independent Economic Consultant, 2013 - 2018
- Clients include: Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Kingdom of the Netherlands (now Ministry of Infrastructure, Public Works and Water Management), Stockholm International Water Insitute, U.S. EPA Office of Water
- Programme Officer, Stockholm International Water Institute, 2015 - 2016
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå, Sweden, 2011 - 2013
Education
- Ph.D. Economics, University of California Los Angeles, June 2011
- M.A. Economics, University of California Los Angeles, March 2008
- B.A. Economics/B.S. Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Loyola University Chicago, May 2006
Research
- Valuing Water Literature Review, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2017
- Managing Water: Rights, Markets and Welfare, with Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy, CERE Working Paper, 2017:2 (also in journal submission)
- Embracing Risk, Uncertainty and Water Allocation Reform When Planning for Green Growth, Gallagher, L., Laflaive, X., Zaeske A., Brown, C., Lange, G-M., Ahlroth, S., Castaneda, J-P., Fanaian, S., Joyce, J., Kamar, E., Bahri, A., Miralles-Wilhelm, F.R. Aquatic Procedia, Vol 6, August 2016. [HTML]
- Pricing instruments for sustainable water management, Sjödin, J., Zaeske, A., Joyce, J.
Working paper Nr. 28. SIWI, Stockholm, 2016. (Organisational Position on Water Pricing PDF])
- Common Metrics in Freshwater Ecosystem Valuation, Stockholm International Water Institute, 2016
- Policy Intervention Points in Freshwater Ecosystems, Stockholm International Water Institute, 2016
- Quantifying the Contributions of Water to Economic Growth, Report Written for Stockholm International Water Institute, 2014
- Water Use and Agricultural Production: A County Level Analysis of the Continental United States, Expert Report for U.S. EPA Office of Water Study: Importance of Water to the U.S. Economy, 2012
- Aggregate Technical Efficiency and Water Use in U.S. Agriculture, CERE Working Paper, 2012:11 (PDF)
- Macroeconomic Analyses of Water Use and Efficiency, PhD Thesis 2011
Presentations
- Complexities with Water pricing and governance, Session Introduction and Panel Member, World Water Week, 27 August 2015
- 20th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, 20 June 2013
An Analytical Assessment of the Relationship Between Social Welfare and Legal Restrictions in a Water Network - North Carolina State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 12 February 2013
Water Use and Agricultural Production: A County Level Analysis of the Continental United States - U.S. EPA Technical Workshop: Importance of Water, 19 September 2012
Water Use and Agricultural Production: A County Level Analysis of the Continental United States - 12th Annual IAEE European Energy Conference, 10 September 2012
Measuring Efficiency in Wholesale Energy Production
Selected Awards and Honors
- E.C. Harwood Fellowship, American Institute for Economic Research, 2010-11
- Roy Anderson Foulke Graduate Scholarship, AIER, 2006-07
- For Best Paper at Second Session of the Summer Fellowship Program
The Great Lakes Conundrum: Water Rights and Use in the Twenty-First Century
- For Best Paper at Second Session of the Summer Fellowship Program
- Phi Beta Kappa, Loyola University Chicago, 2006
Teaching Experience
- Adjunct Instructor, Marian University (Satellite Campus West Allis, WI), Spring 2015
- Mathematical applications course, covering units and problem solving, personal finance (loans, interest and income taxation), statistics (measures of central tendency and variance) and statistical inference.
- Guest Lecturer, Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University, Fall 2012
- Covered basics of energy market modeling (demand, supply and pricing), environmental considerations involved and effectiveness of environmental regulation.
- Designed exam question for course final and provided grading rubrik.
- Discussion Co-leader, Energy Economics, Fall 2012
- PhD-level discussion section covering topics including, the role of energy in economic production, macroeconomic modeling of energy, and the estimation of energy demand.
- Provided guidance for students to complete a literature review within the subject area as a final project.
- Lecturer, Monetary Theory (ECON 161), UCLA, Summer 2009 and 2010
- Teaching Assistant, UCLA, Fall 2007-Winter 2011
Courses: Microeconomics, Statistics for Economists, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Introduction to Econometrics - Head TA, Intermediate Macroeconomics, UCLA, Fall 2009