Nick Brozović, Ph.D

Since 2014, Nick Brozović has served as the Director of Policy for the University of Nebraska’s Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute. He is also a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nick has over twenty years of international experience working on policy, technology, and entrepreneurship issues related to water and agriculture. He is a broad collaborator across nonprofit, for profit, academic, public sector and policymaker boundaries.

Particular areas of interest include: smallholder irrigation; natural resource policy and governance; agricultural and water entrepreneurship; and economic analysis. Recently, he’s supported irrigation entrepreneurs in the US, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia; collaborated with multiple agtech incubator programs; provided corporate strategy consulting; and completed research on water risk and the value of water in agriculture.

Nick holds doctoral and master’s degrees in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California-Berkeley, a master’s degree in geology from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in geology from Oxford University.