Robert Finger is since 2016 Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the ETH Zurich. The research of Robert Finger and his team is at the interface of agricultural sciences and economics. Research foci are i) risk and risk management in agriculture, ii) the evaluation and design of agricultural and environmental policies, iii) climate change and agriculture, and iv) the adoption and diffusion of new technologies. The teaching of Robert Finger and his team mainly contributes to the agricultural science program of ETH Zurich.

Robert Finger holds a diploma in economics and received a PhD in Agricultural Economics from ETH Zurich in 2009. Before being appointed as Associate Professor at ETH Zürich in 2016, he was Assistant Professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and Professor of Production Economics Group at the Rheinische Friedrich-​Wilhelms-Universität of Bonn (Germany). The Agricultural Economics and Policy Group (www.aecp.ethz.ch) is a member of two Departments at ETH Zurich: i) the Department of Management, Technology and Economics as well as ii) the Department of Environmental Systems Science.