Iban Ortuzar holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Girona and a MSc in Statistics and Operations Research from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Maria Angels Xabadia and a member of the Economic Analysis Research Group, holding a fully funded predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. His interests lie in the field of environmental and natural resource economics, with his current research revolving around the management of water resources under droughts. He has completed research stays at the Department of Economics of the University of Zaragoza and at the Water Institute of the University of Waterloo, Canada.