Salvatore holds the following positions:

• Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London (Wye Campus);
• Research Fellow at the Environment for Development Initiative (Ethiopia centre);
• Associate Editor of Environment and Development Economics (published by Cambridge University Press).

 Background

Salvatore has held a Lectureship in Applied Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Kent, and postdoctoral positions at the National University of Ireland, University of Maryland and the University of East Anglia. He also held a visiting position at the University of Wisconsin.

Salvatore completed a first degree in Economics at the University of Palermo (Italy). He was awarded an Msc in Economics and a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of York (UK).

Research interests

• Environment and development economics;
• Risk management in rainfed agriculture;
• Adaptation to climate change;
• Biodiversity;
• Social capital and resource conservation.