Christopher Barrett

Chris Barrett is an agricultural and development economist, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and an International Professor of Agriculture, all at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, as well as a Professor in the Department of Economics and a Fellow of the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, all at Cornell University. He has over 300 publications and his research has been cited more than 29,000 times. He has won more than $30 million in extramural research grants from various corporate, foundation, government agency and nongovernmental organization sponsors.  He has supervised more than 100 graduate students and post-docs, many of whom are now faculty and staff at leading universities and research institutes worldwide. He served as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and currently edits the Palgrave Macmillan book series Agricultural Economics and Food Policy. He presently serves as the Deputy Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell and previously served as President of the Association of Christian Economists, as the David J. Nolan Director of Cornell’s Dyson School, as Chair of the International Section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and on a variety of boards and panels. He has won numerous university, national and international awards for teaching, research and public outreach, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the African Association of Agricultural Economists.