Guillermo Donoso

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economist specializing in Water Economics, Water Allocation Mechanisms, and Water Managerment. At present Full Professor of Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Has been Director of the National Agricultural Research Institute of Chile I have held the position of Dean of the Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile from 1998 to 2007. Previously was Chair of the Agricultural Economics Department between 1995 and 1998. I have over 16 years of experience, as grants and contract manager in various social and economic sectors as consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the GTZ and the World Bank in projects for Latin America on water economics, allocation and management, economic valuation, economic appraisal of investment projects, and economic impact assessment of public programs.

My publications include books such as: Mercados (de derechos) de agua: Experiencias y Propuestas en América del Sur. Serie Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura N° 80. CEPAL. 80 pp., Mercados e Instituciones de Aguas en Bolivia. UDAPE: Unidad de Análisis de Políticas Sociales Económicas, 1998. 241 pp., Book chapters: The Evolution of Water Markets in Chile, in Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity: International Perspectives. RFF Press, Vulnerability And Adaptation To Climate Change In An Irrigated Agricultural Basin In Semi Arid Chile" ASCE Conf. Proc. doi:10.1061/41143(394)13, Adaptación a los impactos del cambio climático en la agricultura de riego en Chile Central." en Camino al Bicentenario, Propuestas para Chile, Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2009. Towards the Integration of Environmental, Economic and Trade Aspects in the Mining Sector CIPMA-IDRC., 2001, Agricultural Threats to Groundwater Quality. Unesco, IAMZ-Ciheam, UPC, 1998, and my papers have been published in journals such as: Water Resources Management, Agricultural water management, Water Policy, Water Science and Technology, Futures Markets, Cuadernos de Economía, Ciencia e Investigación Agraria, Revista de Derecho Administrativo Económico.