Timothy D. Searchinger is a Senior Research Scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. He is also the Technical Director for Agriculture, Forestry & Ecosystems at the World Resources Institute. Although trained as a lawyer, his work today combines ecology, agronomy and economics to analyze the challenge of meet growing global demands for food and wood while reducing their effects on climate and biodiversity. Among his publications are a series of papers in Science and Nature evaluating the climate and land use consequences of bioenergy, agricultural demand and wood use, and offering new metrics and models that incorporate the carbon opportunity cost of land. Searchinger is also the lead author of a series of reports for the World Resources Institute, the World Bank and others on how to meet global feed needs in 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions titled Creating a Sustainable Food Future. A major recent report, The Global Land Squeeze, addresses the extent of global land use competition across agriculture, forestry and urban expansion. Prior to becoming an academic, Searchinger was an attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he led its work on agriculture, wetlands and major aquatic systems. Searchinger has also been a Senior Fellow of the Law and Environmental Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, a consultant to the World Bank on Climate Smart Agriculture, a fellow at the Smith School at Oxford University, a Deputy General Counsel to Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania and a federal appellate law clerk. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal.