Nick Brozović

Bio: 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.

Responsibilities:

• Lead policy and entrepreneurship programs of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, including oversight and mentoring of staff, student interns, and postdoctoral researchers.
• Convene, facilitate, and manage collaborative multidisciplinary and international engagement on water resource management with staff, faculty, students, and university partners and external partners in for profit, non-profit, government, and multilateral institutions.
• Plan and implement institute’s strategic and sustainability goals as part of DWFI leadership team.