Visiting Scholar
Expertise Issues
agricultural policy, trade and commodities | developing nations | food security | foreign aid and global poverty | globalization | rural development Background and Education
Professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, most recently holding Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy; also 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 the 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 International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council and Land O’Lakes board 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 of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; former president, International Association of Agricultural Economists; received honorary doctorates from the Pennsylvania State University and Dalhousie University; Ph.D., agricultural economics, Purdue University Foreign Languages
Portuguese; Danish Publications
More than 100 articles and book chapters on agricultural policy, development and trade | 
