William Meyers

Biography

William Myers is an honorary professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Missouri. He served as the co-director of FAPRI and director of international programs at CAFNR. His research and teaching encompass areas such as international trade, agricultural and rural policy, food security, transition economics, and EU policies and institutions. William Myers is an honorary professor of economics at the University of Iowa and an adjunct professor at the School of Economics, Management, and Statistics at the University of Bologna. Additionally, he has worked for USDA, the World Bank, FAO, Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (Germany), and the Open University of Catalonia (Spain).

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Goshen College, a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota.

William Myers is the author of numerous publications on trade, agricultural and rural policy, commodity market analysis, food security, and transition economics. His work includes research on agricultural and rural policy in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, and Ukraine following their regaining of independence. He is the co-editor of the “Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies,” World Scientific Press (2017), and “Transition to a Market Economy in Agricultural Production: Future of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine,” CAB International (2015).