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Executive Committee Bios
Keijiro Otsuka is a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He received a Ph. D. in economics from the University Chicago in 1979. After working for the Economic Growth Center of the Yale University as a post-doctoral fellow for one year, he served as an associate professor and a professor of economics at the Tokyo Metropolitan University until 2001, when he joined the FASID. Prior to that, he worked with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as visiting research staffs for three and five years, respectively. He is the incoming chairman of the board of trustees of IRRI from January 2004, and a new associate editor of the Economic Development and Cultural Change in October 2003. He has published 11 books and 90 articles in leading journals of agricultural economics, development economics, and environmental economics. He has been working extensively on the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, land inheritance and schooling by gender, and the poverty dynamics in both Asia and Africa.
Johan Swinnen holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is a Professor at the University of Leuven, Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. He was Lead Economist at the World Bank and Economic Advisor at the European Commission. He was the keynote speaker at several IAAE Conferences, chair of the AAEA International Section, chair of the EAAE Congress Program Committee, on the IATRC Programme Committee, associate editor of Agricultural Economics, AJAE, ERAE, and guest editor of several journals. He published extensively in the leading journals. Among his latest books are "Political Power and Economic Policy", "Global Supply Chains, Standards, and the Poor", "From Marx and Mao to the Market". He was elected Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists.
David Colman is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Manchester, and is Director of the Farm Business survey for the Northwest of England. He is Vice-president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and a past President of the Agricultural Economics Society in the UK. He has acted as expert advisor to the House of Commons Agriculture Committee on a two occasions in relation to the dairy sector policy, and has been an expert witness and advisor in a number of court cases relating to the milk industry. David Colman has undertaken research projects and consulting contracts for various bodies, including OECD, FAO, WHO, the World Bank, ODA, and the Canadian, Malawian, and Saudi Arabian Governments. He is author of textbooks on the Principles of Agricultural Economics, on Development Economics, and of many other published works. His main areas of specialist research are in agricultural supply response, dairy sector policy (including the economics of quotas), price formation, and commodity modeling. He has a first degree in agricultural science from London University , and higher degrees in agricultural economics from the Universities of Illinois and Manchester.
Dr. Walter J. Armbruster is President Emeritus, Farm Foundation. During a thirty year career there he organized numerous conferences in collaboration with colleagues from the land grant universities, government agencies and industry to bring forth the best research possible on economic and policy issues facing agriculture and rural areas. Walt earlier spent 8 years with the Economic Research Service, USDA where his research focused on pricing, institutions and policies in the food and agricultural marketing system, and then served two years as Staff Economist to the administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA. Walt has been president of the AAEA, the American Agricultural Law Association, and the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer of IAAE since 1991. Dr. Armbruster is a fellow of the AAEA, IAMA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; has received distinguished service awards from the American Agricultural Law Association and The Chicago Farmers; and is a distinguished Agricultural Alumni, Purdue University.
Simeon Ehui, a national of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was recently appointed World Bank's Sector Manager for South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development. Simeon joined the World Bank in 2003 after a distinguished career as an agricultural economist and manager at the International Livestock research Institute (1990-2003) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (1988-1990). Simeon has published widely (over 100 articles) in the areas of agricultural development policy, international trade, and natural resource management. He holds both an MSc and PhD degree from Purdue University. Simeon has received several awards and honors including several World Bank Awards of Excellence. In 2001, Purdue University named him "Distinguished Agricultural Alumnus" in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and significant contributions to the agricultural economics profession and to society. In 2007 The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAEA) selected him as Honorary Fellow in recognition of the significant and unique contribution he has made to the profession over the years.
Shenggen Fan is Director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Prior to IFPRI, he held positions at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) and the University of Arkansas. He received his PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University. Dr. Fan's major research includes pro-poor development strategy, pro-poor investment, and rural-urban linkages in developing countries. He has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Alumni Award in Applied Economics and the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from the University of Minnesota. His latest book is "Public Expenditures, Growth and Poverty In Developing Countries: Issue, Methods and Findings" published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Elisabeth Sadoulet is an economist with a doctorate degree from the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on the modeling and econometric analysis of processes, programs, and policies in international development. Fields of work include impact analysis of development interventions particularly relating to social development and agriculture, rural poverty analysis, general equilibrium modeling related to trade and adjustment policies, the role of producer organizations, microfinance, the management of common property resources, and payments for environmental services. Her work has focused principally on Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Indian Subcontinent. She was a member of the core team that prepared the World Development Report 2008, Agriculture for Development. She is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Gerald Shively is a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University and a past recipient of Purdue's Agricultural Research Award. He conducts nationally and internationally recognized research on agriculture, the environment, and natural resource management. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, after which he joined the faculty of Agricultural Economics at Purdue. His research focuses on the links among poverty, land use, and natural resource management in developing regions of the world. His interests also include the environmental and distributional implications of sector-specific and macroeconomic policies. Prof. Shively's international experience includes research collaborations in numerous African and Asian countries, and he holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Economics and Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is the author of numerous articles, books and book chapters and currently serves with Will Masters as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the IAAE Journal, Agricultural Economics.
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