Management Team
Project Directors
Principal Investigators
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Project Director Brian Buhr Brian Buhr is Professor, E. Fred Koller Chair and Head of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Professor Buhr joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1992. Dr. Buhr has spoken at over 100 national and international conferences and symposia in the past five years, has published extensively in professional journal articles, extension manuscripts, book chapters and trade manuscripts and each year enjoys interacting with 80 – 100 students in his three courses related to commodity marketing and risk management with futures and options. Dr. Buhr has received the Outstanding Policy Contribution Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association and recently received the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences’ Distinguished Teaching Award. His research areas include policy and price analysis, risk management and the economics of information systems and traceability. On July 1, 2008 Professor Buhr was appointed as Department Head of Applied Economics. |
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Project Director Mark Rosegrant Mark W. Rosegrant is Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). A PhD in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, he has 28 years of experience in research and policy analysis in agriculture and economic development, with an emphasis on water resources and other critical natural resource and agricultural policy issues as they impact food security, rural livelihoods and environmental sustainability. Rosegrant developed IFPRI's International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), which has become a standard for projecting global and regional food demand, supply, trade and prices; and IMPACT-WATER, which integrates a detailed water supply and demand model with the food model. He is the author or editor of 6 books and over 100 refereed papers in agricultural economics, water resources and food policy analysis. |
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Principal Investigator Philip Pardey Philip Pardey is professor of science and technology policy in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and director of the International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) center. Previously he was a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC where he led the institute's Science and Technology Policy Program, and prior to 1994 at the International Service for National Agricultural Research in The Hague, Netherlands. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, Australia, and obtained a doctoral degree in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Minnesota. His research deals with the finance and conduct of R&D globally, methods for assessing the economic impacts of research, and the economic and policy (especially intellectual property) aspects of genetic resources and the biosciences. Philip is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. |
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Principal Investigator Stanley Wood Stanley Wood is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. He joined IFPRI in 1995 and until 1997 was outposted to the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia working on impact assessment studies for regional agricultural research. Since then he has been based at IFPRI headquarters, where he led IFPRI's research on spatial analysis in a policy context. Before joining IFPRI, Wood served as an independent consultant to multilateral and bilateral development organizations on natural resource, land use and agricultural systems modeling, based in Libya, Italy and Indonesia. A British citizen, Wood earned his MSc in water resources development from the University of Birmingham, his MSc in agricultural development from the University of London, and a PhD in agricultural economics, also with the University of London. He currently serves as the Global Coordinator of the CGIAR’s Consortium on Spatial Information (CSI), and is a member of the steering committee of the newly-launched BMGF initiative on enhancing geospatial data and analysis support to smallholder-focused agricultural development. |
