Amy W. Ando

Dr. Amy Ando earned a B.A. in economics from Williams College in 1990 and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1996. She was a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics from 1999-2023 and before that she worked as a research Fellow in Resources for the Future, where she still has an affiliation as a University Fellow. She has had nearly $6 million in grants from sources including the NSF, EPA, and USDA-NIFA and has been published in journals such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Ando has been a Co-Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, has served as a handling editor for other major journals in her field, and worked on numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and as an elected Board member and Vice President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She is currently a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources for the National Academies of Sciences and she has provided expert advisory service to agencies and NGOs including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy in Illinois.