Global Agricultural Development Experts Committee

The Global Agricultural Development Experts Committee was convened in September 2008 to provide critical thinking and guidance on the full spectrum of issues under examination by the Global Agricultural Development Project. The Committee is made up of 12 experts with significant expertise in the fields of agricultural research, U.S. foreign policy, infrastructure and agricultural development, trade, international economics, and regional affairs in Africa and South Asia. The findings of the Experts Committee supported the work of the Leaders Group.

Chair

Robert L. Thompson, professor emeritus of Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Members

Ousmane Badiane, Africa Director, International Food Policy Research Institute

Joyce Cacho, chief sustainability officer, Novus International, Inc.

Mary Chambliss, former deputy administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

W. Ronnie Coffman, international professor, Plant Breeding, and director, International Programs, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Cornell University

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute

William Masters, professor, Agricultural Economics, and associate head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College

Thomas A. Reardon, professor, International Development and Agribusiness/Food Industry, Department of Agricultural Economics, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University

C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, University of Minnesota

Asif M. Shaikh, president and CEO, International Resources Group

Emmy Simmons, former assistant administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, USAID