Chosen by members’ votes, the President has among his/her functions:
a) Legally represent the Association before any kind of public or private organizations.
b) Call, chair and preside over the meetings held by the General Assembly and the Board of Directors
c) Direct the deliberations of both.
d) Order payments and authorize with his/her signature the documents, minutes and correspondence.
e) Adopt any urgent measure that the smooth running of the Association advises is necessary or desirable for the development of its activities, without prejudice to account later to the Board of Directors.
Current President
Dr. Renan Goetz
Renan Goetz holds a Dr. sc. tech. and a venia legendi (habilitation) in the field of environmental and resource economics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Before joining the University of Girona in the year 1997 he had been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley for two years. Currently he holds a position of a Full Professor at the University of Girona. He served as the Head of the Department of Economics for four years and as the coordinator of the Ph.D. program of the Department of Economics for three years. He has led a large number of projects financed by national agencies and participated actively in the evaluation of research projects at the national and international level (FP7, H2020, National Science Foundation, BARD). He has been Country Representative for Spain at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). Currently he is Co-Editor of the book series Natural Resource Management and Policy published by Springer and of the journal Water Economics and Policy. His research is situated in the interface of agricultural/environmental economics and mathematical modeling.
His research topics are the management of natural resources like forest, water and land-use. The results of his research among others were published in journals like: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Mathematical Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, Forest Science, Ecological Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Nonlinear Analysis, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Development Economics, Mathematical Population Studies, and Optimal Control Applications and Methods.
Former presidents:
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- Dra. Carmen Arguedas (2022-2024)
- Dr. Alejandro Caparrós (2020-2022)
- Dr. Santiago Rubio (2018-2020)
- Dr. Antoni Riera Font (2015-2018)
- Dr. Emilio Cerda (2012-2015)
- Dra. María A. Cunha-e-Sá (2009-2012)
- Dr. Pablo Campos Palacín (2002-2008)