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Background and Education

Professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, most recently holding Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy; also currently senior fellow of global agricultural development and food security at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; previously served as director of rural development at the World Bank, president and CEO of Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, dean of agriculture and professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, assistant secretary for economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and senior staff economist for food and agriculture at the Council of Economic Advisers; serves on the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council and Land O'Lakes boards of directors; fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; former president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists; received honorary doctorates from Pennsylvania State and Dalhousie universities; Ph.D., agricultural economics, Purdue University