Professor S. Niggol SEO is a natural resource economist who specializes in the study of global warming. Born in a rural village in South Korea in 1972, he received a Ph.D. degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Yale University in May 2006 with a dissertation on micro-behavioral models of global warming. While at Yale, he learned from Professors Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus (Nobel Prize in 2018) on the economics of global warming. Since 2003, he has worked on various World Bank projects on climate change in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He held Professor positions in the UK, Spain, and Australia from 2006 to 2015. He has been on the editorial boards of the three journals: Climatic Change, Food Policy, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. He received an Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in Pittsburgh in June 2011 for developing a behavioral economic model of adaptations to climate change.