PROFILE

Kirby A. Moulton

After 26 years as a specialist, Kirby retires!
We shall miss him!

Kirby Moulton, a economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1970. He was responsible for the development and implementation of research and educational programs in agricultural trade and policy, global competition in horticultural products, and market liberalization in Eastern Europe. Some of his projects have included the impacts of GATT, NAFTA and other treaties, changes in the wine and grape industries, competition in the canned fruit and processed tomato industries, and the effects of market liberalization in Bulgaria and Hungary.

His analyses of the U.S. and overseas grape and wine industries are respected internationally; the French government, for instance, honored him with its Merit of Agriculture Award. He currently is the president of the Economic Commission of the International Office of Wines and Vines (OIV) -- the first American elected to that position. He is also a founding member of Ligne de La Vigne, an international group seeking to encourage and coordinate worldwide research on problems in viticulture, wine making and marketing.

Dr. Moulton was a founder of the California Agricultural Trade Seminars, U.S. delegate to the FAO Intergovernmental Committee on Grape Products, and member of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) which advises the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative. He is the author or editor of numerous reports and books, including:

• The Economics of Small Wineries,
• Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies,
• Marketing Table Grapes and Raisins in the Global Market,
• Evaluating Privatization in Hungary's Wine Industry,
• Economic Impacts of Free Trade with Mexico, and
• Evaluation of Advertising and Promotion in the Wine Sector.