DAVID WIDAWSKYUS EPA
Before joining EPA, Widawsky held a number of international positions. He was an agricultural economist at the International Rice Research Institute, an organization funded by multilateral grants and located in the Philippines . He also lived and worked in China while conducting doctoral research on the economics of sustainable agricultural production. With the Rockefeller Foundation in India , he worked on a research plan for agricultural biotechnology in rice. A native of California , Widawsky received bachelors' degrees in plant and soil biology and in political economy of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley . He earned his master's in agricultural economics at Colorado State University , and his Ph.D. in applied and development economics at Stanford University. |
As Associate Director in EPA's National Center for Environmental Innovation, Dr. Widawsky leads initiatives to identify and promote opportunities for enterprises to improve economic performance through improved environmental performance. He is an active member of EPA's Environmental Technology Council, where he has advised formation of a regional network of environmental technology experts who can facilitate public/private and federal/state partnerships to promote technologies with environmental benefits. Widawsky helps lead an interagency workgroup (the Interagency Network of Enterprise Assistance Providers) focusing on identifying and promoting collaborations among federal agencies to support small and medium-sized enterprises.