My interests in economics uncertainty and innovation date from my early experiences on my family’s sheep station in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. I received a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (First Class honors) from the University of New England, Armidale, and won one of two Frank Knox Fellowships given annually to Australian students by Harvard University, where I received an A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics. I then joined Yale University’s Economics Department and am now a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
My research interests include economics of markets for storable commodities, market stabilization, agricultural policy, industrial organization, public finance, invention incentives, intellectual property rights, the economics of research and development, and the economics of conservation and innovation of genetic resources. I co-authored or co-edited several books, including Storage and Commodity Markets; Reforming Agricultural Commodity Policy; Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers, and Accessing Biodiversity and Sharing the Benefits: Lessons from Implementing the Convention on Biodiversity. I have published extensively in the leading journals in Economics and Agricultural Economics. In addition, I have co-authored articles in Nature Biotechnology, The Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, and Crop Science.
A.M. Ph.D. Economics Harvard University
B. Ag. Econ. (First Class Honors and University Medal) University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
