Dr. Eli Fenichel is the Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Yale University, http://environment.yale.edu/profile/eli-fenichel. He received a PhD from Michigan State University in 2007, and was on the faculty of Arizona State University for four years prior to joining Yale in 2012. Prof. Fenichel conducts quantitative research that connects economics, epidemiology, natural science, and sustainable development, with a focus on intertemporal allocation and tradeoffs. He has published over 80 papers on natural resource management, epidemic management, and economics in outlets including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Lancet Public Health.
Prof. Fenichel approaches natural resources as capital assets, and views natural resource management problems as investment decisions. He believes that framing resource management problems as investment decisions creates opportunities for creative 21st century natural resource management and policy. A central part of Prof. Fenichel’s research focuses on measuring the value of natural capital under prevailing institutions.
At Yale, Dr. Fenichel teaches graduate level courses in applied math, mathematical modeling, natural resource economics, and the economics of sustainable development. He took a leave for Yale in June 2021 to serve in the Biden-Harris Administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Natural Resource Economics and Accounting.