Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
403 Robertson Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
609-258-9156 (p)
609-258-6082 (f)
tsearchi@princeton.edu

Tim Searchinger is a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. He is also a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute. Trained as a lawyer, Searchinger now works primarily on interdisciplinary environmental issues related to agriculture.

For seventeen years, Searchinger worked at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he co-founded the Center for Conservation Incentives, and supervised work on agricultural incentive and wetland protection programs. A deputy General Counsel to Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania and a law clerk to Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a graduate, summa cum laude, of Amherst College and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Searchinger first proposed the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program to USDA and worked closely with state officials to develop programs that have now restored one million acres of riparian buffers and wetlands to protect priority rivers and estuaries in Maryland, Minnesota, and Illinois, among other states. Searchinger received a National Wetlands Protection Award from the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 for a technical book about the functions of seasonal wetlands of which he was principal author. His most recent writings focus on the greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels, and agricultural conservation strategies to clean-up nutrient runoff. He is writing a book about the interaction of agriculture and the environment.

Recent biofuel publications can be found on the link to the left.