Elisabeth Sadoulet is an economist who is currently Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She obtained her PhD from the University of Geneva in 1982. In 1985, she joined the University of California, Berkeley as a Lecturer where she stayed until today. She is a fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. She was the editor of the World Bank Economic Review from 2010 to 2013, and on the editorial board of the Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies from 2008 to 2010.