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William Meyers

Associated Member at the Center for Food and Land Use Research, Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and University of Missouri, Adjunct Professor at School of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Bologna

Biography

William H. Meyers is a Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics at University of Missouri and formerly Co-Director of FAPRI and Director of CAFNR International Programs. Areas of teaching and research are international trade, agricultural and rural policy, food security, transition economics, and EU policies and institutions. He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at Iowa State University and Adjunct Professor at School of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Bologna. Other professional positions have been at USDA, World Bank, FAO, Christian Albrechts University-Kiel, and Open University of Catalonia. He earned a BA in Mathematics at Goshen College, MS in Agricultural Economics at University of the Philippines Los Banos and PhD in Agricultural Economics at University of Minnesota.

He authored numerous publications on trade, agricultural and rural policy, commodity market analysis, food security and transition economics, including agricultural and rural policy studies on Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary and Ukraine after the countries regained independence. He is co-editor of the recent “Handbook on International Food and Agricultural Policies”, World Scientific Press (2017) and “Transition to Agricultural Market Economies: The Future of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine” by CAB International (2015).