Andrew Hobbs
Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco

I am a development and environmental economist studying how people cope with droughts, floods, and other environmental shocks. I am particularly interested in how household power structures lead the costs of those shocks to be unevenly distributed.
Before starting my PhD, I lived and worked for several years in Mozambique studying climate smart agriculture. Prior to that, I worked on renewable energy and energy efficiency policy in the U.S., Germany, and China.
news
Nov 25, 2019 | Check out this blog post about SimPastoralist, the mobile game I developed for insurance experiments that we’re now also using to train policymakers. |
Oct 24, 2019 | USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience wrote a blog post about our deep learning competition for better index insurance. |
Sep 13, 2019 | I’ve launched a deep learning benchmark competition in partnership with Weights and Biases to identify droughts faster and more accurately from satellite data. Read more about it and join the competition! |
May 23, 2019 | SimPastoralist is now available for download from Google Play! |
Apr 24, 2019 | My work on floods and deforestation was mentioned in an article in The New Humanitarian on the recent cyclones in Mozambique. |