Linus Blomqvist

Linus Blomqvist is a PhD candidate at UCSB's Bren School specializing in Economics and Environmental Science. He is the former Director of the Food and Agriculture program at the Breakthrough Institute. Linus's work lies at the intersection of conservation and agriculture, and ranges from evaluating impacts of zero-deforestation policies to modeling trends in crop yields. He uses methods from diverse fields, with an emphasis on econometrics and causal inference.

Linus has published widely in the areas of conservation, agriculture, and environmental policy. He has co-authored ten peer-reviewed papers and two book chapters, as well as blogs and essays on issues ranging from decoupling to land sparing, precision agriculture, aquaculture, feedlots, and fertilizers.

Linus's work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, New Scientist, Wired, The Guardian, and many others.

Linus holds an MESc from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a BA in Geography from Cambridge University.

Linus was born and raised in Sweden and has been based in the US since 2011. In his free time, he enjoys birding, photography, and jazz.