Rosamond L. Naylor

Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment

Rosamond Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor, Emerita, in Environmental Social Sciences at the Staford Doerr School of Sustainability, a Senior Fellow at Stanford Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the founding Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, at Stanford University. She received her B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado, her M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She works with her students in many locations around the world. She has been involved in numerous field-level research projects around the world and has published widely on issues related to intensive crop production, aquaculture and livestock systems, biofuels, climate change, food price volatility, and food policy analysis. In addition to her many peer-reviewed papers, Naylor has published two books on her work: The Evolving Sphere of Food Security (Naylor, ed., 2014), and The Tropical Oil Crops Revolution: Food, Farmers, Fuels, and Forests (Byerlee, Falcon, and Naylor, 2017).

She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, a Pew Marine Fellow, a Leopold Leadership Fellow, and a Fellow of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics. Naylor served as the co-Chair of the Blue Food Assessment and is the Chair of the Board of Directors for Aspen Global Change Institute  At Stanford, she teaches courses on the World Food Economy, Human-Environment Interactions, and Food and Security.