About GTAP: PhD Students
Lauren Benavidez
Spring 2026
Dissertation: "Three essays at the intersection of food systems, economics and climate change"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade and development
- Food security and nutrition
- Land use
- Climate change
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Yutaro Inoue
Summer 2028
Dissertation: "Essays on Trade, Environment, and Policy"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade and Environment
- Non-tariff Measures
- Econometric Analysis
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Pattawee Puangchit
Winter 2025
Dissertation: "Impacts of the Non-tariff Measures and Regional Trade Agreement on Trade Flows: Analysis of ASEAN Economic Community"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade
- Trade Policies and Non-tariff measures/barriers
- CGE modeling
- Agribusiness Marketing
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Kavitha Srikanth
Spring 2027
Dissertation: TBD
Interests/Skills:
- Environmental and Agricultural Economics
- Land Use
- Environmental policies
- Sustainable development
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
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Junyan (George) Tian
Spring 2028
Dissertation: Essays in Development Economics
Interests/Skills:
- Natural resilience
- Impact assessment
- Climate and crop modeling
- Trade policies
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