Director of Policy
Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute
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.