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Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is past Chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He has a B.S. from the Danish Agricultural University, a M.S. and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland, and India. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He served 10 years as the International Food Policy Research Institute?s Director General and seven years as department head; seven years as an economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia; and six years as a distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his research and communication of research results. He teaches and advises graduate and undergraduate students on globalization and poverty and a social entrepreneurship approach to government policy for the global food system. His research includes economic analyses of food and nutrition policy, globalization and poverty, agricultural development and research and technology policy. Dr. Pinstrup-Andersen?s publications include ?Seeds of Contention,? co-authored with Ebbe Schiøler and published in five languages, and more than 400 other books, refereed journal articles, papers and book chapters, including a book on Ethics, Hunger and Globalization, co-edited with Peter Sandøe and a book on Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries, co-edited with Niek Koning, both published in 2007.

Positions

July 1, 2006 - present: J. Thomas Clark Professor Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.

January 31, 2003 - present: H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University.

January 1, 2003 - present: Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen (formerly The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL)), Denmark.

June 13, 2003 - present: Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

March 20, 2001 - December 31, 2007: Distinguished Professor, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

September 2, 2002 - December 31, 2002: Senior Research Fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C.

July 1, 1992 - September 1, 2002: Director General and CEO of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C.

February 1, 1987 - June 30, 1992: Professor of Food Economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and Founding Director of the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program (CFNPP), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

April 1, 1980 - January 31, 1987: Research Fellow and from September 1, 1980 Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Policy Research Program, Intern

o NS 6420/AEM 6420 Globalization, Food Security, and Nutrition
o NS 4450/AEM 4450 Food Policy for Developing Countries

Food Policy for Developing Countries - The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food System, http://cip.cornell.edu/gfs. This program aims to strengthen university training in policy analysis for the food systems, with emphasis on developing countries, using a social entrepreneurship approach. This website includes a large number of cases, which can be downloaded free of charge by instructors, students and other interested parties worldwide.