Douglas Southgate

Douglas Southgate is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the study of natural resource issues in the United States and around the world and has written numerous books, chapters, and journal articles on public policies contributing to tropical deforestation, hydrocarbon development, the economics of watershed management, and related topics. Along with Douglas Graham and Luther Tweeten, Professor Southgate recently completed the second edition of "The World Food Economy", published by John Wiley in 2011. His next book – titled “Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs:  How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach” and coauthored by historian Lois Roberts – will be published in early 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A fluent Spanish speaker, Professor Southgate has worked in 15 Latin American, Caribbean, and African nations. A 2003 recipient of the Pomerene Teaching Award and the 2006 winner of the Price Advising Award, he previously served on the Tropical Ecosystems Directorate of the U.S. Man and Biosphere Program, directed Ohio State’s Latin American Studies Program, and was associate director of the university’s Subsurface Energy Resource Center, which the university created in September 2011 in response to accelerated oil and gas development in eastern Ohio.