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Naomi Zeitouni is a research associate in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of specialty are environmental economics and water resource management. Her recent research projects include: understanding the effect of environmental damage on resource development timing and magnitude, optimal water extraction from a renewable groundwater aquifer with uncertain recharge, contingent valuation of coral reef degradation, and participation in an interdisciplinary research on regional effects of climate change.

Dr. Zeitouni majored in economics and statistics at Tel Aviv University and received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rhode Island. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 2002, Dr. Zeitouni worked at the University of Haifa.