Professor Kym Anderson AC FASSA

Professor Kym Anderson

Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide and Honorary Professor, Australian National University; current Chair ICIPE, former Chair IFPRI, former President of ACIAR’s international Policy Advisory Council; Crawford Fund Medallist 2022

Kym Anderson is George Gollin Professor Emeritus in the School of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Adelaide (where he has been affiliated since 1984) and an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy (where he was a Research Fellow 1977-83 and a part-time Professor of Economics 2012-18). In two periods of extended leave he served as deputy head of economic research at the GATT Secretariat (now World Trade Organization) in Geneva (1990-92) and as Lead Economist (Trade Policy) in the World Bank’s Research Group in Washington DC (2004-07). He was the first economist to be appointed a GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Panelist, 1996-2008. During 2010-17 he served on the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, Washington DC, USA), chairing it from 2015; and from 2020 he has been on the Governing Council of Africa’s International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe, Nairobi, Kenya), chairing it from November 2021. Since doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, he has published more than 40 books and 350 academic journal articles or chapters in others’ edited books, covering agricultural policies, economic development and international trade. For after-hours fun he also dabbles in wine economics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in the US, a Distinguished Fellow of both the Economic Society of Australia and the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and a Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He is a recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Economics degree from the University of Adelaide and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of New England. In 2015 he became a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).