Dave Martin Professor of Economics

I am an economist who gets to teach an exciting array of courses in both the Economics Department and the Environmental Studies Department, as well as serve as the resident director for the Semester in India program for fall 2019.

My professional activity falls into two areas. First, I focus my own professional work on economic issues related to biodiversity protection, both locally and in India. Second, I also enjoy mentoring both Economics and Environmental Studies students to help transform their interests into research studies.

Throughout my career I've been keenly interested in local environmental policy issues (including their resolution by serving as a local elected official and on the board of directors of land conservancies). I've used that interest and my connections to help my students get involved with doing practical local environmental policy analyses.

Also, I have taken Davidson students to India so that they could pursue their own independent research projects.