Director of Policy, Daugherty Water for Food Global Instit.
University of Nebraska
Since 2014, Dr. Nick Brozovic has served as the Director of Policy for the University of Nebraska’s Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute. He is also a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nick has over twenty years of international experience working on policy, technology, and entrepreneurship issues related to water and agriculture. He is a broad collaborator across nonprofit, for profit, academic, public sector and policymaker boundaries.
Particular areas of interest include: smallholder irrigation; natural resource policy and governance; agricultural and water entrepreneurship; and economic analysis. Recently, he’s supported irrigation entrepreneurs in the US, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia; collaborated with multiple agtech incubator programs; provided corporate strategy and ESG consulting; and completed research on water risk and the value of water in agriculture.
Nick holds doctoral and master’s degrees in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California-Berkeley, a master’s degree in geology from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in geology from Oxford University.
Responsibilities:
- Lead policy and entrepreneurship programs of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, including oversight and mentoring of staff, student interns, and postdoctoral researchers.
- Convene, facilitate, and manage collaborative multidisciplinary and international engagement on water resource management with staff, faculty, students, and university partners and external partners in for profit, non-profit, government, and multilateral institutions.
- Plan and implement institute’s strategic and sustainability goals as part of DWFI leadership team.