Widyono Soetjipto is a senior researcher and has joined the Institute of Economics and Social Research (LPEM-FEBUI) since 1995. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Indonesia. He completed his undergraduate degree at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in 1990, received his Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign in 1995, and completed his doctoral study at Department of Economics University of Indonesia in 2004. Widyono’s teaching and research interests are in natural resource and environmental issues, economic modeling, as well as agricultural economics.