Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Emeritus, at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside (UCR). His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior associated with the management of water, natural resources, and the environment. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then, he spent 15 years at the World Bank working on water and climate change economics and policy. In 2008, he assumed a professorship at UCR. He founded the UCR Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014. He has been an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; and was named a 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment and Water Economics and Policy); for the latter one, he serves at present as an Editor-in-Chief. He founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Global Issues in Water Policy.