Dr. Madhu Khanna is the Alvin H. Baum Family Chair and Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also the ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a University of Illinois Scholar, a Stanford Woods Institute of Environment Leopold Leadership Fellow, Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Agricultural Economics and the International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research.