Dr. Randall is a Scholar in Residence in the Sustainability Institute, and an Academy Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He served as Professor and Head of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Sydney in Australia, 2011-2014. Alan was a professor at Ohio State for 25 years, 12 of them as AEDE Department Chair. He specializes in environmental economics and policy, with particular interests in environmental risk; biodiversity, habitat and environmental sustainability; environmental regulation, monitoring, and enforcement; and the benefits and costs of environmental projects and programs. Alan has published quite a bit, received a handful of awards and recognitions, and completed his share of funded projects and consulting assignments. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and a past-president of AARES. Currently he serves as editor-in-chief of the Resources and Sustainable Utilization of Sustainability https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability .