College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Forestry

Raju Pokharel is the new Assistant Professor of Forest Resource Economics in the Department of Forestry. He earned his Ph.D. in forest resources from Mississippi State University (2016), MS and BS in Environmental Sciences from Tribhuvan University in Nepal, and an MBA from the University of Sunderland in the UK. Pokharel worked at the Policy Analysis Group at the University of Idaho before joining MSU, conducting research in forest product supply chain and market models, carbon models, wildfires, and bioenergy markets.

Pokharel joined MSU in the fall of 2020. His expertise lies in applied economic and econometric analysis of forest resources, forest sector response to policy changes, forest product market models, wildfire risk and mortality models, carbon accounts, and supply chain analysis. His research area and interests include multiple-use natural resource management, biomass and bioenergy, forest product market modeling, carbon accounting, and climate change mitigation. Welcome to the department, Raju!