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 Kym
Anderson
Kym Anderson is Professor of Economics and
founding Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies (CIES)
at the University of Adelaide in Australia, but since mid-2004 he has been on
extended leave at the World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington DC
as Lead Economist (Trade Policy). His research interests and publications are
in the areas of international trade and development as well as agricultural economics.
He has published 25 books and about 250 journal articles and chapters in other
books, the latest book being Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development
Agenda (edited with Will Martin, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in
October 2005).
 Nicole
Ballenger
Nicole Ballenger joined the University of Wyoming
as the Head of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department in 2004. She
is currently interim Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Previously
she was Chief of the Diet, Safety and Health Economics Branch of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, where she began her career in 1984.
Ballenger has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California
at Davis. Her areas of research have included agricultural policy and trade, Mexican
agriculture, trade and the environment, and the economics of food and agricultural
research policy.
 Gary
Banks
Gary Banks has been Chairman of the Productivity
Commission since its inception in April 1998. He was previously Executive Commissioner
with the Industry Commission. He has headed national inquiries on a variety of
public policy and regulatory topics. Most recently, he chaired the Taskforce on
Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Business, which submitted its report to the Prime
Minister and Treasurer on 31 January. At the Productivity Commission, he is currently
presiding on the inquiry into Freight Infrastructure Pricing. He previously presided
on the Review of National Competition Policy Reforms and led the study for COAG
into Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia. Gary Banks oversees the Office
of Regulation Review's role in monitoring the Australian Government's regulation
making processes. He also chairs the inter-governmental Steering Committee for
the Review of Government Service Provision. Before joining the Commission, Gary
worked at the Centre for International Economics, Canberra, and has been a consultant
to the OECD and World Bank. In earlier years, he was a member of the GATT Secretariat
in Geneva, and Visiting Fellow at the Trade Policy Research Centre, London. His
more recent speeches and papers are available on the Productivity Commission's
website www.pc.gov.au.
 Hans
Binswanger
Hans Binswanger is a fellow at the Tswane University
for Technology in Tswane, South Africa. He has done research on induced innovation,
agricultural mechanization, agricultural investment and supply response, impact
of technical change, risk in agriculture, production relations in agriculture,
land markets and land reform, and the determinants of agricultural and agrarian
policies. In his 25 years at the World Bank, he has been a manager, policy analyst,
designer of large scale development programs, implementer, advocate, and AIDS
activist. He has been a manager in the World Bank's central Rural Development
Department, as well as in Latin America and Africa Region. He has assisted a number
of countries in the development of agricultural and rural development strategies
and in the design of Community-Driven Development Programs and HIV/AIDS programs
(Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Morocco, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and others).
He was the architect and writer of the 1997 Rural Development Strategy of the
World Bank. Over the eight years he has become an activist inside and outside
of the World Bank for the prevention, mitigation, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
 Derek
Byerlee
Derek Byerlee is currently Director of the
World Development Report 2008, Agriculture and Development, in the World
Bank, Washington, DC. He has previously served as manager of agricultural and
rural development operations in Ethiopia and Sudan, and Policy Adviser for Agriculture
and Rural Development in the Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was Director
of the Economics Program, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center,
Mexico, and Associate Professor, Michigan State University. He has published widely
on a range of topics in agricultural and rural development, and was elected a
Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2004.
 Peter
Corish
Peter Corish is the immediate past President
of the National Farmers' Federation of Australia, was chair of the Agriculture
and Food Policy Reference Group, chairs the Cairns Group Farm Leaders forum, sits
on the Trade Policy Advisory Council and is a Commissioner of the National Water
Commission. His family operates a farming business based at Goondiwindi with interests
in cotton, cereals, beef and sheep meat.
 Stephen
Devereux
Stephen Devereux is a Research Fellow at the
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He works on food security,
famine and social protection issues, mainly in Africa. His books include Food
Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (edited), and Theories of Famine. Recent
research includes a study of destitution among farmers in highland Ethiopia and
a study of livelihood vulnerability among pastoralists in Somali Region, Ethiopia.
In 2002/3 he was appointed Special Adviser to the UK Government's International
Development Committee for its 'Inquiry into the Humanitarian Crisis in Southern
Africa'.
 Ruben
Echeverria
Ruben Echeverria holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture
from the University of Uruguay and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University
of Minnesota, USA. In 1988, he joined the International Service for National Agricultural
Research (ISNAR), The Hague, Netherlands until 1992 when he joined the Inter-American
Development Bank in Washington D.C. to work on agricultural and rural development
issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since September 2004, Ruben has been
the Executive Director of the Science Council of the CGIAR based at FAO, Rome.
 Brian
Fisher
Brian Fisher was first appointed ABARE's Executive
Director in November 1988. During 1984-85, Dr Fisher was Chief Research Economist,
then Deputy Director, of the former Bureau of Agricultural Economics. He was appointed
to the chair in Agricultural Economics at the University of Sydney in 1985, becoming
Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University in 1987, and Adjunct Professor
of Sustainable Resources Development in 2003.
Dr Fisher has held positions on a number of government boards and committees.
In 2005 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Exports and Infrastructure
Taskforce.
Dr Fisher received the Farrer Memorial Medal in August 1994, became a fellow
of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in November 1995 and was awarded
the Public Service Medal in 2002 for 'outstanding public service in the field
of agricultural and resources policy development'. He holds a PhD in agricultural
economics from the University of Sydney.
 Eleni
Gabre-Madhin
Eleni Gabre-Madhin joined IFPRI in July 2004
to lead the new Ethiopia Country Strategy Support Program. Based in Addis Ababa,
the program will collaborate closely with the Ethiopian Development Research Institute
(EDRI) and other Ethiopian research institutions. Prior to joining IFPRI, Dr.
Gabre-Madhin was a Senior Sector Economist in the Environment and Socially Sustainable
Development (ESSD) Department, Africa Region, of the World Bank in Washington,
DC. An Ethiopian national, Dr. Gabre-Madhin, has held positions as a research
fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division of IFPRI and as an economist
and commodity trading expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) in Geneva. She holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University
and received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Agricultural
Economics Association in 1999. Her research has focused on market reforms, market
institutions, and structural transformation in Africa.
 Hartwig
de Haen
Hartwig de Haen is currently the Assistant
Director-General and head of the Economic and Social Department of the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Previous to this (from 1990
to 1994) he was Assistant Director-General and head of the FAO Agriculture Department.
He studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics at Universities of
Kiel and Göttingen, Germany, and at Michigan State University, East Lansing,
USA. Diploma (MSc) and Dr.sc.agr. (Ph.D.) in Agricultural Economics, University
of Göttingen. Following his studies he worked as Research Associate at Michigan
State University and at the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining FAO, he
was Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
His applied research comprised agricultural policy issues in Europe as well as
in various countries of Asia, Near East and Africa. During his time in academic
institutions Hartwig de Haen was a member of research and policy advisory bodies,
including the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development (Chair from 1988-1990). de Haen has published books
and articles in the fields of production economics, development economics, agricultural
policy and environmental economics.
Günter Hemrich
Günter Hemrich is a Food Systems Economist
with FAO's Agricultural and Development Economics Division, currently focusing
on food security issues in protracted crisis situations. He recently contributed
as guest editor and author to a special issue of the Journal "Disasters",
which reviewed longer-term food security policy and programming challenges in
complex emergencies, emphasising the need to strengthen the resilience of food
systems. Earlier work on natural disasters includes a paper on "Reducing
Agricultural Vulnerability to Storms, with Special Reference to Farming Systems
and Methods", published in the Report of the 2001 FAO Asia-Pacific Conference
on Early Warning, Prevention, Preparedness and Management of Disasters in Food
and Agriculture.
 Joanna
Hewitt
Joanna Hewitt was appointed Secretary of DAFF
in October 2004. Prior to her appointment, Joanna was Deputy Secretary of the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where, amongst her other responsibilities,
she was the lead negotiator for the WTO Doha round. Joanna was Australia's Ambassador
in Brussels from 2000-2003 and before that Deputy Secretary of the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Australia's APEC Ambassador. Joanna spent a period
as Division Head in the former Department of Primary Industries and Energy (1988-1992)
and held a senior role in the OECD's Agriculture Directorate in Paris. She has
also worked in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and as an advisor
to a former Minister for Trade.
 Mahabub
Hossain
Mahabub Hossain is Head, Social Sciences Division
and Leader, Fragile Ecosystems Program at IRRI. He was the Director General of
the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka (1989-1992). Dr. Hossain
graduated in MA (Economics), Dhaka University, 1969 and PhD (Economics), Cambridge
University, England, 1977. Dr. Hossain's major area of research is on rural development
policies. He conducts research on understanding rural livelihoods and factors
contributing to changes in income distribution and poverty focusing Bangladesh,
Eastern India, Vietnam and Thailand. He chaired IRRI's Strategy and Medium Term
Plans. He has authored nine books and over 100 papers in refereed journals and
edited books.
 Jikun
Huang
Jikun Huang is the Founder and Director of
the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS), as well as Professor and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Geographical
Sciences and Natural Resources Research of CAS. He is recognized as one of the
leading agricultural economists in China. His research covers a wide range of
issues on agricultural and rural economy, including work on agricultural R&D
policy, resource and environmental economics, price and marketing, food consumption,
poverty, and trade liberalization. He has published widely on China's rural economy,
including articles in leading journals such as Science, Nature, and many top journals
in the field of economics. He has been a policy consultant to China's government
and several international organizations. He has received the Outstanding Scientific
Progress awards from the Ministry of Agriculture three times, several awards and
prizes from the Chinese Government, including top ten outstanding youth scientists
in 2002.
Lee AnnJackson
Lee Ann Jackson is an Economic Affairs Officer
in the Agriculture and Commodities Division at the World Trade Organization where
she currently contributes to work on the agriculture negotiations. She has worked
in the area of dispute settlement on several recent cases which involved the SPS
Agreement, including the dispute concerning European Communities' measures affecting
the approval and marketing of biotech products. Prior to this position she served
as a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide
in South Australia where she conducted quantitative economic research on agricultural
trade policy. Dr. Jackson has also worked at the Environment Division of the International
Food Policy Research Institute and served as a consultant for various organizations
including the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Service
for National Agricultural Research Systems. She completed her Ph.D. in applied
economics at the University of Minnesota; and has a joint masters degree in public
policy and environmental studies from Yale University; as well as a degree in
biology from Princeton University. She has numerous publications in the area of
agricultural trade, particularly on themes related to trade and genetically modified
organisms.
 William
Martin
Will Martin specializes in analysis of trade
policy reforms in developing countries, with an emphasis on reforms related to
the WTO, and a regional focus on East and South Asia. He has written extensively
on policy reforms in agricultural trade and textiles and clothing. He has a particular
interest in using detailed data on trade barriers to build up a complete picture
of the effects of trade barriers on trade and welfare. He has published widely
in journals, and several books, including a recent study of China's accession
to the WTO.
 J.V.
Meenakshi
J.V. Meenakshi is currently the Impact and
Policy Coordinator for HarvestPlus, and is based at the International Food Policy
Research Institute. She has been a member of the faculty of the Department of
Economics, Delhi School of Economics for over ten years. She has published widely;
her research areas include agricultural price policy, auctions in grain markets,
institutions and markets for groundwater, rural poverty and social safety nets,
gender and agriculture, food and nutrient demand, micronutrient malnutrition,
and impact assessment of nutrient interventions such as biofortification. She
obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University.
 Geoff
Miller
Geoff Miller holds a Bachelor Degree, with first class honours, from the University
of New England, and Masters and PhD degrees in Applied Economics from Stanford
University in the USA. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
and was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for his "contribution to
primary industry and international relations.
Dr Miller is a corporate advisor, specialising in agribusiness, and a company
director. He is Principal of GCM Strategic Services Pty Ltd, Chairman of BEELINE
Technologies Pty Ltd, Quality Wheat CRC (now Value Added Wheat CRC), and Gresham
Rabo Management Limited, and was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International
Food Policy Research Institute (Washington DC) until March 2003. He is also a
member of the boards of JEM Bonds Ltd and Agrilink Holdings Pty Ltd, and has served
on the boards of The Farmshed Ventures Pty Ltd, Queensland Sugar Ltd, Namoi Cotton
Cooperative Ltd, Australian Wheat Board, Australian Wool Realisation Commission,
Australian Wool Corporation and AIDC Ltd.
Dr Miller spent almost two decades as Chief Executive of national agencies
in Canberra. He was Secretary of the Department of Primary Industries & Energy
and of the Department of Tourism, Associate Secretary of the Department of Foreign
Affairs & Trade, Director of the Economic Planning Advisory Council and Director
of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
 David
Orden
David Orden is Senior Research Fellow, Markets,
Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI), and professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He
is co-author of Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis
(with Robert Paarlberg and Terry Roe) and Food Regulation and Trade: Toward
a Safe and Open Global System (with Timothy Josling and Donna Roberts). Orden
received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1984) and has been Visiting
Fellow, University of New South Wales (1990), chairman of the International Agricultural
Trade Research Consortium (1996-97), and Visiting Professor, Stanford University
(1998-99).
 Prabhu
Pingali
Prabhu Pingali is the Director of the Agricultural
and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations and President of the International Association of Agricultural
Economists (IAAE) for the period 2003-06. He co-chairs the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment Panel's working group on Future Scenarios. Pingali has twenty five
years of experience in assessing the extent and impact of technical change in
developing country agriculture in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was Director
of the Economics Program at CIMMYT, Mexico from 1996-2002, and prior to that worked
at the International Rice Research Institute at Los Baños, Philippines
from 1987 to 1996 as an Agricultural Economist. Prabhu Pingali has authored six
books and dozens of referred journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor
(with Robert Evenson and Paul Schultz) of the Handbook
of Agricultural Economics, Vol III.
 Per
Pinstrup-Andersen
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock
Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and Professor of Applied Economics
at Cornell University; Professor of Development Economics at the Royal Veterinary
and Agricultural University (KVL), Copenhagen; and Distinguished Professor at
Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is Chairman of the Science Council
of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Science Council
and President of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He received
the World Food Prize in 2001. He served 10 years as the International Food Policy
Research Institute's Director General. His publications include Seeds of Contention
published in five languages, and more than 450 other books, refereed journal articles,
papers and book chapters.
 Matin
Qaim
Matin Qaim is professor of International Agricultural
Trade and Food Security at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He
holds a PhD in agricultural and development economics from the University of Bonn,
and an MSc in agricultural sciences from the University of Kiel. He has extensive
research and teaching experience related to smallholder agriculture, poverty,
and malnutrition in developing countries. His recent research includes projects
on the economics of micronutrient deficiencies and on impacts of new agricultural
technologies in different countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has
published widely in international agricultural economics and interdisciplinary
journals.
 Tom
Reardon
Tom Reardon is Professor in the Department
of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University since 1992. In 1999 he was a
visiting Fellow at the FAO Regional Office in Chile. Before MSU he
was Research Fellow at IFPRI from 1986-1991, a Rockefeller Foundation
Post Doctoral Fellow in West Africa from 1984-86. He earned his Ph.D.
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Tom as a
researcher/teacher at the Central Reserve Bank of Peru and the
Catholic University of Peru from 1981-1983 as he did his doctoral
fieldwork. Tom's research focuses on: (1) the rise of supermarkets in
Asia and Latin America, and how this affects food systems and
farmers; (2) the rural nonfarm economy in developing regions.
 Donna
Roberts
Donna Roberts is a senior economist at the
Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her research
interests and publications are in the areas of agricultural trade, trade policy,
and trade regulation. In 2002, she completed a six-year assignment at the US Trade
Representative's Permanent Mission in Geneva, where she served as a delegate to
the WTO's Committee on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures.
From 2003 to 2005, she was the director for the Program for Research on the Economics
of Invasive Species Management (PREISM) for ERS' Market and Trade Economics Division.
She is co-author (with David Orden and Tim Josling) of Food Regulation and
Trade: Toward a Safe and Open Global System.
 Yasuyuki
Sawada
Yasuyuki Sawada is an associate professor in
Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. His research interests include econometric
investigations of household and firm behavior by using micro-data from different
countries such as Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Indonesia, Kenya,
El Salvador, Korea, and Japan. Particularly, he re-surveyed the IFPRI-surveyed
households in Pakistan to investigate the impact of income risks on schooling.
Recently, he is analyzing the Kobe earthquake and the Asian Tsunami disaster.
His other research interests include development macroeconomics and foreign aid.
He completed his M.A. in Food Research and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University
in 1996 and 1999, respectively.
 Alexander
J. Stein
Alexander J. Stein is research associate in
the Division of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security, Department
of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart,
Germany and at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany. He holds
a Licence in Economic Sciences (Rural Economy and Environment) from the University
of Montpellier I, France and an MA in Economic Development and Policy Analysis
from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has worked as consultant for development
projects in Asia, Northern Africa and Eastern Europe. His current research interests
include in particular the cost-effectiveness of micronutrient interventions. By
March 2006 he will have completed his PhD in Agricultural Economics at the University
of Hohenheim.
 Andrew
Stoeckel
Andrew Stoeckel, Executive Director of the
Centre for International Economics, is one of Australia's leading economists.
He received his PhD from Duke University in 1978 and his thesis was to build a
small general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. He is a specialist
in trade policy analysis and the international economy. From 1981-86 he was Director
(Head), Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (ABARE), Canberra - the largest
economic research agency in Australia and one of the largest in the world. He
is a specialist in policy analysis and the international economy, and has initiated
and directed programs of research, which have included studies of European policies
and international trade that received world acclaim. He has over thirty publications
to his credit.
 Mona
Sur
Mona Sur is a Senior Economist in the World
Bank's South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development Unit where she leads analytical
work on agricultural and rural development policy. Her current work focuses on
the rural non-farm sector, food safety issues and monitoring and evaluation of
investment operations. She has authored/co-authored several World Bank reports
and papers, and most recently the report "Sri Lanka: Improving the Rural
and Urban Investment Climate." She holds a Ph.D in Agricultural and Applied
Economics from the University of Minnesota and a Post Graduate Diploma in Regional
Development from the University of Queensland.
 Jo
Swinnen
Jo Swinnen is professor of development economics
and director of LICOS Center for Transition Economics at the University of Leuven
(KUL) in Belgium; He is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy
Studies (CEPS), Brussels, and coordinator of the European Network of Agricultural
and Rural Policy Research Institutes (ENARPRI). From 2003 to 2004 he was lead
economist at the World Bank and from 1998 to 2001 economic advisor at the European
Commission. He has been consultant and advisor to other international institutions
(incl. EBRD, OECD, FAO, and IFAD) and many East European governments. He has published
several books and many articles on transition, agricultural policy reform, globalization
and international integration. His latest book is From Marx and Mao to the
Market (Oxford Univ Press, with Scott Rozelle). He holds a Ph.D from Cornell
University..
 Carolyn
Tanner
Carolyn Tanner is a Senior Lecturer in agricultural
economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University
of Sydney. Her special area of expertise is agricultural trade policy, in particular
trade liberalisation, regional trade agreements, quarantine policy and food safety.
She is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource
Economics and in 1995 she became the first woman to be elected President of
the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. She has undertaken
reviews of quarantine and food safety for the Australian Government and currently
serves on advisory councils for quarantine and WTO policy.
 Dina
Umali-Deininger
Dina Umali-Deininger is Lead Agricultural Economist
in the World Bank's South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, where she
oversees the preparation of analytical studies. She has authored several World
Bank reports and papers on agricultural policy, food security and nutrition, food
grain, cotton and livestock sector policy in India and Sri Lanka, and most recently
the report "India Re-energizing the Agricultural Sector to Sustain Growth
and Reduce Poverty". Prior to joining the South Asia region she worked
on agricultural policy issues in East Asia and Eastern Europe. She has an M.A.
and Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Agribusiness
Management from the University of the Philippines.
 Unnevehr,
Laurian
Laurian J. Unnevehr is Professor of Agricultural
and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. Her research examines the
social welfare implications of food safety and nutrition. She received her PhD
from Stanford University in 1982; was a Rockefeller Social Science Post-Doc at
the International Rice Research Institute from 1982-1985, and joined the University
of Illinois faculty in 1985. With co-authors, she received the AAEA Quality of
Communication and Publication of Enduring Quality awards recognizing contributions
in food policy and food demand. She is an Editorial Board member for Food Policy
and a past president of the AAEA.
  
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