Management Team

Project Director

Professor and Department Head, Department of Applied Economics
UMN

Robert P. King is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on management issues facing food retailers, farmer cooperatives, and farmers and on the impacts new information technologies are having on the food system. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on managerial economics and quantitative methods. Professor King has worked internationally in Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, and he currently serves on the Editorial Council of the Review of Agricultural Economics.

Project Director

Mark Rosegrant
Director, Environment and Production Division, EPTD
IFPRI

Mark W. Rosegrant is Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). A Ph.D. 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.

Principal Investigator

Philip Pardey
Professor, Department of Applied Economics
UMN
Director, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center
InSTePP, UMN

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 D.C. 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.

Principal Investigator

Stanley Wood
Senior Scientist/Program Head, Environment & Production Technology Division

IFPRI

Stanley Wood is a senior scientist 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. Since 2006, he co-leads IFPRI’s new Strategy Theme 1 on the “Global Food Situation and Scenarios of Policy Risks and Opportunities.” 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 M.Sc. in water resources development from the University of Birmingham, and his M.Sc. in agricultural development from the University of London. In early 2007 Wood successfully defended his PhD thesis in Economics, also with the University of London.