Anthony D'Agostino graduated from Columbia in 2017 (current website).
Focus area: Sustainable agriculture, air quality, climate impacts.
Anthony his an applied microeconomist with 15 years of experience working at the intersection of development, environment, and space. He is the project director of a USAID cost-benefit analysis evaluating the economic returns to sustainable land use practices in Ghana, a consultant on a USDA-funded grant to estimate the health and economic impacts of animal agriculture on neighboring communities, and earlier directed two CIFF-funded evaluations on city-level GHG accounting and the development/execution of carbon neutral climate action plans among C40’s member cities. He is passionate about combining geospatial and survey data to better understand our government and foundation clients’ impacts in the land, agriculture, climate, and urban sectors.
Prior to joining Mathematica in 2018, he did his post-doc at Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (Department of Earth System Science). He hold a PhD in Sustainable Development (Columbia University) and an MPP (National University of Singapore). I’ve earlier worked at UNEP, World Resources Institute, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory), Centre on Asia and Globalisation, and the Institute of Water Policy.