Levente Timar
Levi joined Motu and GNS Science from Hungary in September 2009. The joint position he fills was established to strengthen integrated environmental economic research across the two organisations.
Levi earned a PhD in economics from North Carolina State University in 2008. His dissertation focused on evaluating policies designed to control the spread of aquatic invasive species, and zebra mussels in particular, whose primary spread vector is recreational boaters. At Motu his broad research responsibilities include modeling rural land use and the impact on agriculture of various economic and climate change scenarios, and valuing water quality, while at GNS he works on a framework to evaluate the direct and indirect economic impacts of disruptive natural hazard events.
In his free time, Levi enjoys running. He used to be quite competitive in the 3000m steeplechase, and ran on the Hungarian national team for several years. When he is neither working nor running, chances are he is out in nature tramping with his finacee Mariann, or reading a novel.