Alice Favero

Dr. Alice Favero is a Senior Natural Resource Economist at RTI International and has directed and led technical tasks for numerous projects supporting federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private-sector clients. Dr. Favero has more than 15 years of experience conducting economic analyses across the land use, forestry, agriculture, and energy sectors, with a particular focus on natural resource management and bioenergy systems. Her expertise includes evaluating land use strategies, environmental and economic resilience, energy production, conservation, and sustainable resource management. 

Dr. Favero applies dynamic, spatially explicit economic modeling frameworks to assess trade-offs within coupled human-environment systems and to support evidence-based decision-making. Her research has contributed to internationally recognized studies on land use, forest economics, bioenergy, ecosystem services, and natural resource management, and she is frequently invited to speak at workshops and conferences on land use, forestry, and bioenergy.  

Prior to joining RTI, Dr. Favero spent nearly a decade in academia, where she taught Environmental Economics and served as Director of Graduate Studies at Georgia Tech.