Amy W. Ando

Dr. 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, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Ando is currently a Co-Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, she has served as a handling editor for other major journals in her field, and she has worked on numerous review panels for the National Science Foundation. She has served as elected Board member and as elected Vice President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and is currently elected to the Board of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. She is a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources for the National Academies of Sciences. She has provided expert advisory service to agencies and NGOs including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy in Illinois.