Martina Bozzola
Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW
Education: 2018 – 06/2019 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) - accredited by the Higher Education Academy. 2010 – 12/2014 Ph.D, International Economics. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva (CH) (Summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury for the defence). Thesis Topic: “Climate change, adaptation and household response”. 2004 - 2006 M.A. in International Economics. IHEID, Geneva (CH). 2001 - 2004 B.S. in Economics of Public Administration and International Organizations. Bocconi University, Milan, IT. Summa cum laude. Grades average: 29.4/30 (top 1% students). 2003 European Union Erasmus Exchange Program. University College of Dublin (UCD), Dublin, IE 1996 - 2001 Liceo Scientifico “P.Gobetti”, Omegna, Italy Scientific Lyceum Diploma. Score: 100/100 Professional Experience: 01/18 – Lecturer Economics of Agriculture, Food and Health, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 04/19 – Research Associate Agricultural & Resource Economics Group, Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), CH 01/18 – 03/19 Research Associate Agricultural Economics & Policy Group, ETH, Zürich, CH 02/15 – 01/19 Visiting Lecturer, University of Geneva (UNIGE). Geneva, CH. Courses: Development Economics; Environmental and Resource Economics 09/16 – 12/17 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (75% FTE) and Lecturer (25% FTE) Agricultural Economics & Policy Group, ETH, Zurich, CH. Courses co-taught: Agrarökonomie im World Food System; Food and Resource Economics; Current Topics in Agricultural Economics and Policy. Certificate: Supporting & teaching students to be more effective academic writers (1ECTS) 09/15 – 08/16 Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute (EUI). Florence, IT Max Weber Teaching Certificate (3 ECTS) 12/14 - 10/15 Environmental Economist, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO). Grade P3. Geneva, CH 2011 - 07/16 Researcher, Centre for International Environmental Studies. Graduate Institute (CIES, IHEID). Geneva, CH. Projects: EU/FP7 projects ACQWA and FoodSecure 2013 - 2014 Professor, International University in Geneva (IUG). Geneva, CH. (Courses: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Mathematics) 2008 - 2011 Research, Communication and Business Development Officer, Symbiotics Group, Geneva, CH 2008 Researcher, Italian Competition Authority, Rome, IT 2008 Financial Analyst, General Motors Acceptance Corporation Financial Services, Bern, CH 2007 - 2008 Group Marketing and Business Development Analyst, General Motors Acceptance Corporation Financial Services, Birmingham, UK 2006 - 2007 Economic Analyst, Caterpillar Sarl, Geneva, CH 2005 - 2006 Economic Affairs Department Assistant, Permanent Mission of East Timor to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Geneva, CH Honors and third parties funding: 10/2019 Awarded the "2018 Best Referee Award of the European Review of Agricultural Economics" by the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications (EAAEP) Foundation. 09/2019 Best Poster Award of the 171st Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), for presenting my work on “the impact of climate change on global agri-food trade” joint with: F.G. Santeramo and E. Lamonaca. 2017 Best Contributed Paper Award – Annual Conference of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE https://www.eaae.org/News.aspx?News=24 2017 Full Sponsorship - Impacts World 2017 conference - Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. 2014 Summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury for PhD Thesis Defense Graduate Institute, Geneva 2014 Outstanding Presentation of Research Award: EAERE‐FEEM‐VIU European Summer School on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change 1996 - 2003 Scholarship for being among employees’ son top 3 best academic performance. Banca Popolare Intra 2000 Piedmont region 1st price for best research project in History. Awarded a cultural trip to Poland List of publications: Peer Reviewed Publications: Möhring N., M. Bozzola, S. Hirsch and R. Finger. 2020 “Are pesticides risk decreasing? The relevance of pesticide indicator choice in empirical analysis” Agricultural Economics Forthcoming. Iyer, P., M. Bozzola*, S. Hirsch, M. Meraner, R. Finger. 2020. “Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review” Journal of Agricultural Economics 71:3-26. Bozzola, M., E. Massetti, R. Mendelsohn and F. Capitanio. 2018. “A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Italian Agriculture.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 45 (1): 57-79. Bozzola, M., M. Smale and S. Di Falco. 2018. “Maize Intensification among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya: Understanding the Impacts of Climate”. Book Chapter in: "Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Food Security in a Changing Environment." RFF Press/Routledge, London and New York. Hanley, N., O. Sheremetd, M. Bozzola and D. MacMillan. 2017. “The Allure of the Illegal: a choice modelling approach to understanding rhino horn consumption in Vietnam” Conservation Letters 11(3): 1-8. Bozzola, M. and C. Ravetti. 2017. “Gli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici sul valore dei terreni agricoli in Italia: modelli Ricardiani a confronto” AgriregioniEuropa 49 Bozzola, M. and T. Swanson. 2014. “Policy implications of climate variability on agriculture: Water management in the Po river basin, Italy.” Environmental Science & Policy 43: 26–38. Di Falco S., Adinolfi F., Bozzola M., Capitanio F. 2014. “Crop Insurance as a Strategy to Adapt to Climate Change.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 65 (2): 485–504. Work in Progress under review in international peer reviewed journals Bozzola, M., and R. Finger “Time variant risk preferences in agriculture: Evidences from Italy” under review R&R Bozzola, M., Smale, M. “The welfare effects of crop biodiversity in the presence of market failures - An empirical application on Kenya” under review R&R Bozzola, M., N. Tyack, T. Swanson and H. Ting “Local innovators in Uganda: Experimenting with improved maize in a low adoption environment” Submitted Other Publications, Proceedings and Working Papers MacMillan, D., M. Bozzola, N. Hanley, A. Kasterine and O. Sheremet. 2017. “Demand in Viet Nam for rhino horn used in traditional medicine” International Trade Centre (UN/WTO), Geneva, Switzerland. Bozzola, M., T. Swanson and H. Ting “Transfer of Improved Varieties in Informal Markets and the Diffusion of Embedded Innovation: Legal Pluralism in Uganda” FOODSECURE working paper no. 55, June 2016. Hanley, N., O. Sheremetd, M. Bozzola, A. Kasterine and D. MacMillan 2016. “Consumer Demand for Rhino Horn in Vietnam: Insights from a Choice Experiment” University of St. Andrews, Department of Geography and Sustainable Development - working paper no. 10, May 2016. Bozzola, M., M. Smale and S. Di Falco. 2016. “Climate, Shocks, Weather and Maize Intensification Decisions in Rural Kenya” FOODSECURE working paper no. 39, January 2016. Bozzola, M., 2014. "Adaptation to Climate Change: Farmers' Risk Preferences and the Role of Irrigation," 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia 182771, EAAE. Bozzola, M. 2013. “Climate Change, Smoothing with Water Stock and Impact on the Agricultural Sector in the Po Valley (Italy)”. Proceeding, First Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Climate Sciences (SISC), Climate change and its implications on ecosystem and society. SISC. Lecce, Italy. Blogs & Media: Le preferenze per il rischio nel settore agricolo Europeo: un’analisi sistematica della letteratura Agrarpolitik-Blog, March 2019 Cambiamenti climatici e valore dei terreni agricoli nell’arco alpino (with Chiara Ravetti, Oxford University) Agrarpolitik-Blog, July 2017 FOODSECURE Final Conference – A Policy and Science Forum on Europe’s Role in Eliminating Global Hunger and Malnutrition – European Commission – Brussel October 2016 “Why is the Economics of Climate Change So Difficult and Controversial? A Max Weber Lecture by M. Weitzman” (with Jordi Teixidó-Figueras, EUI). Max Weber Blog, November 2015 Martin Weitzman (Harvard University) interviewed by Martina Bozzola (MW-RSCAS Fellow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxI-KFSlZo, October 2015 “COP21: The Agreement” (with Jordi Teixidó-Figueras, EUI). Max Weber Newsletter, 10 February 2016 “Bouquets and Briquettes - Don’t let that waste be wasted” Trade and Environment Blog, ITC, August 2015 “Voices from the Field” Trade and Environment Blog, ITC, December 2014 Skills: Languages: Italian (native speaker); English, French (fluent); Spanish, German (basic working knowledge). Software: Stata, R, EViews, LaTex, ArcGIS. Comfortable in constructing and working with various databases. Adept at using all Microsoft Office programs Conferences & Workshops with Selected Paper (from 2015): 04/2020 Agricultural Economic Society Annual Conference, K U Leuven, BE Forthcoming 09/2019 171st Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Taenikon, CH 04/2019 Agricultural Economic Society Annual Conference, Warwick, UK 08/2018 166th EAAE Seminar on Sustainability in the Agri-Food Sector, Galway, IR 06/2018 AIEAA conference “Evidence-based policies to face new challenges for agrifood systems” Conegliano IT 03/2018 Understanding individual and household choices in Africa using longitudinal data, Dar Es Salaam, TZ 02/2018 The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Conference, Turin, IT 10/2017 Impact World 2017, international conference on climate-change impacts, Potsdam, D 08/2017 17th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Parma, IT 07/2017 American Agricultural & Applied Economic Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, US 06/2017 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference, Athens, GR 02/2017 The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Conference, Rome, IT 07/2016 American Agricultural & Applied Economic Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Boston, US 06/2016 7th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics (AWEEE), A Toxa, SP 06/2016 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference, Zurich, CH 02/2016 The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Conference, Bologna, IT 01/2016 CITES 66th meeting of the Standing Committee - Side Event, Geneva, CH 09/2015 28th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee (AC28), Tel Aviv, Israel 08/2015 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), Mannheim, D 08/2015 15th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Milan, IT 06/2015 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Conference, Helsinki FI 03/2015 Centre for the Study of African Economies 2015 conference (CSAE), Oxford, UK Invited Lecture, Seminars & Others (from 2015): 12/2019 - Training facilitator “Approaches for Sustainability, Environment and Living Income”. ITC, Geneva, CH. 11/2019 - Invited Delegate “Frontiers of Engineering for Development Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) symposium: From feeding people to nourishing people - The Royal Academy of Engineering”. Antananarivo, MD 10/2019 - Lead Trainer “Competing in a world of Regional and Global Value Chains Fundamental concepts & the Alliances for Action approach”. European Commission: Training on Trade & Private Sector development (TPSD) - Policies and Best Practice. DG for International Cooperation and Development. Brussel, BE 04/2019 - Scientific Committee for the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA) 9th Annual Conference (invited member). The conference will take place in June 2020. Title: “Mediterranean agriculture facing climate change: Challenges and Policies”. Bari, IT. 09/2019 - International Scientific Committee (invited member) of the 171st Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) “Measuring and evaluating farm income and well-being of farm families in Europe Towards a shared and broader approach for analysis and policy design”. Taenikon, CH. 04/2019 “De la croissance verte à la décroissance : quelle politique économique pour nous sortir de la crise environnementale?”. Panel Discussion for the Sustainable Week Switzerland 2019. Geneva, CH 03/2018 “Workshop on Policies for Sustainable and Inclusive Global Value Chains”. World Economic Forum (WEF), Geneva, CH 12/2017 Lead Trainer “Formation sur l’analyse de chaînes de valeur régionales et mondiales”. Projet d’Appui à la Compétitivité du Commerce et à l’Intégration Régional de l’UEMOA (PACCIR/UEMOA). Ouagadougou, BF 11/2017 “Expert Group Meeting - United Nations Value Chain Development Group - VALUE CHAIN PARTNERSHIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT” ITC (UN/WTO) and FAO. Geneva, CH 10/2017 Graduate Institute Geneva - Centre for International Environmental Studies’ ECON Seminars on “Resource and Development Economics” 10/2016 Invited speaker, FOODSECURE conference “Policies that matter - A policy & science forum on Europe’s role in eliminating global hunger and malnutrition” Session: “Linking empowerment, innovation and resilience – evidence from farm households”. Brussels, BE 02/2016 Teaching week at LSE, London (course prepared for obtaining the Max Weber Teaching Certificate). Course title: “Policies and politics of climate change”. Level: undergraduate 10/2015 Side Event Organizer and Panelist at 42th FAO’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) “Trade for Food Security: Empowering smallholders for sustainable value chains” 11/2015 OxCarre Lunchtime Seminar Series - Department of Economics University of Oxford 10/2015 Max Weber Programme Interviews: Interview to Prof. Martin Weitzman, Harvard university (EUI, Florence). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxI-KFSlZo “ Editorial Board Memberships: the Italian Economic Journal; Agribusiness; Agriculture & Food Security Peer Reviews (Referee): PUBLONS Profile available at: https://publons.com/author/1542708/martina-bozzola#profile