Timothy D. Searchinger is a Research Scholar at Princeton University, and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Although trained as a lawyer, his work today combines ecology, agronomy and economics to analyze the challenge of how to feed a growing world population while responding to climate chance and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Searchinger is the author of a series of four papers in Science and Nature from 2008 through 2018 reevaluating the climate benefits of bioenergy when factoring in land use change and proposing new methods for evaluating the climate consequences of land use. Searchinger was the lead author of a series of reports for the World Resources Institute, the World Bank, UN Environment and UNDP on how to equitably and fully meet global feed needs in 2050 while protecting forests and reducing. A final report titled Creating a Sustainable Food Future was published in July of 2019. Searchinger has directed projects in Rwanda, Colombia, and Vietnam on evaluating potential to improve livestock production to increase output and reduce emissions and has authored numerous papers regarding strategies for abating nitrogen pollution. Prior to joining Princeton, Searchinger was a Senior Attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he led work on agricultural policy and wetland protection. Searchinger has also been a Senior Fellow of the Law and Environmental Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, a fellow at the Smith School at Oxford University, a Deputy General Counsel to Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania and a law clerk to Judge Edward Becker of the U.S. 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.