Julia Talbot-Jones

Julia Talbot-Jones is an environmental and institutional economist in the School of Government at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and an Affiliate at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research where she leads the freshwater programme.

Her interdisciplinary economic and public policy research investigates how social arrangements or structures, what economists call institutions, can solve environmental and natural resource problems over time. A former NZ-US Fulbright scholar, her work bridges economics, ecology, and resource management.