Dr. Federico Castillo is an Environmental and Agricultural Economist with a PhD and Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Castillo’s research is centered on technology transfer and innovation, economic valuation, the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, and the economic aspects of protected areas and migration. He is a member of a multidisciplinary team that is developing a research agenda on climate change, agriculture and population issues in the Berkeley campus.  

He is currently engaged in research with scholars from the Tropical Agricultural Research Center (CATIE), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and the University of California, Davis in projects dealing with ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change, the socioeconomic impact of weather extremes in California agriculture and climate change impacts on migration from Mexico to the U.S..  Federico has taught courses related to migration to the United States, natural resource economics, economics of climate change and sustainable business practices.