Mordechai Shechter Joins the Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Advisory Board
- 2015-09-10
The Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Knowledge Community is pleased to welcome Mordechai Shechter to our Advisory Board .
Mordechai Shechter (b.1937) Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics and of the Department of Natural Resource & Environmental Management, at the University of Haifa, Israel. Until recently also served as the Founding Dean of the School of Sustainability at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) – Herzlyia, Israel. He is the founder (1985) and Director (until 2010) of the Natural Resource & Environmental Research Center. At the University of Haifa he served as Rector (Provost), Dean of Research, Head of the Economics Department and the Graduate Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Management Departments (which he founded 20 years ago), and Chair of the Senior Faculty Association. In 2000-2005 he served as President of Tel-Hai Academic College in northern Israel. He also chaired the governing board of Israel’s National Parks and Nature Reserves Authority Council, founded and headed the Israel Information Center for Climate Change Adaptation, and chaired the Board of the City of Haifa’s Museums. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University (1968), and taught and published extensively in the areas of environmental and natural resource economics and management.