Professor Kym Anderson

Biography/ Background

Kym Anderson is the George Gollin Professor of Economics and formerly foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, where he has been affiliated since 1984. Previously he was a Research Fellow in Economics at ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (1977-83), following undergraduate studies at the University of New England in Armidale (1967-70), part-time Masters studies at the University of Adelaide (1971-74) while working in the S.A. Department of Agriculture in Adelaide, and doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and Stanford University (1974-77).

Prior to joining Adelaide in 1984 he was a Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at Australian National University in Canberra (1977-83). He has spent periods of leave at Korea's International Economics Institute (1979), Korea's Rural Economics Institute (1980-81 as Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow in International Economics), the Australian Department of Trade (1983), Stockholm University's Institute for International Economic Studies (1988), the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva (1990-92), and the Research Group of the World Bank in Washington DC (2004-07).

Outside Adelaide he has taught as a guest professor at the Australian Defence College, Australian National University, Beijing University, the University of Siena, the University of Sydney, Uppsala University and, from 2002, the World Trade Institute at the Swiss universities of Bern, Fribourg and Neuchatel (Master of International Law and Economics). He has conducted many short courses on agricultural and trade policy issues and WTO matters in numerous developing countries including China since 1995.

He has been a consultant to numerous national and international bureaucracies, business organisations and corporations. He is a Research Fellow of Europe's London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resourse Economics Society. He has served on several dispute settlement and arbitration panels at the World Trade Organization since 1996 (the first economist to do so), on a panel advising the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade in their preparation of Australia's first White Paper on Foreign and Trade Policy, and as President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. He is also on the editorial board of several international academic journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law and, as Co-editor, the Journal of Wine Economics (see www.wine-economics.org).

Please see attached CV below

Qualifications

Stanford University: M.A. conferred 08/76, Ph.D. conferred 08/77

University of Chicago: Completed 1st year of doctoral program. M.A. conferred 08/75

University of Adelaide: External, thesis-only M.Ec. conferred 04/74

University of New England: Completed Bachelor of Agricultural Economics with first class honours and dux of year. B.Ag.Ec.(Hons.) conferred 04/71

Teaching Interests

His teaching interests include microeconomics, international trade, agricultural economics and development economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been instrumental in developing Adelaide's Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters degree in International Economics.

Research Interests

His research interests and publications are in the areas of international trade and development, agricultural economics, environmental economics, and wine economics. His most recent projects have focused on empirical analysis of such issues as the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization (www.worldbank.org/trade/wto); global distortions to agricultural incentives (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions); economics of agricultural biotechnology (GMO) policies globally (www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/trade/biotech); and wine globalization (www.adelaide.edu.au/cies/wine). He has published more than 25 books and more than 250 journal articles and chapters in other books.

Publications

His most recently finished books are:

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: A Global Perspective, 1955-2007, London: Palgrave Macmillan and Washington DC: World Bank (forthcoming October 2009)

The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming late 2010.

 

Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty (edited with J. Cockburn and W. Martin), Washington DC: World Bank, forthcoming March 2010.

His recent books include:

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies (edited with J. Swinnen, 2008), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America (edited with A. Valdes, 2008), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia (edited with W. Martin, 2009), and Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa (edited with W. Marsters, 2009), Washington DC: World Bank.

Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (edited with W. Martin), London: Palgrave Macmillan and Washington DC: World Bank, 2006. (Recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association 2006 Quality of Communication Award and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society inaugural Quality of Research Discovery Prize, 2007)

WTO Core Rules and Disciplines (edited with B. Hoekman), a two-volume set for the series of readings on Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System, London: Edward Elgar, 2006.

The WTO and Agriculture (edited with T. Josling), a two-volume set for the series of readings on Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System, London: Edward Elgar, 2005

World Wine Markets: Globalization at Work (editor), London: Edward Elgar, 2004

Australia's Economy in its International Context: the Joseph Fisher Lectures, Volume I (1904-1948) and Volume II (1950-2001) (editor), Adelaide: Centre for International Economic Studies, 2001  (PDF copy accessible below)

The Building of Economics at Adelaide, 1901 to 2001 (with B. O'Neil), Adelaide: School of Economics, University of Adelaide, 2002 (revised February 2004, PDF copy accessible below)

For a full list of his publications, please see attached CV below

Files

• Fisher Lectures, Vol. 2 - Fisher_Lectures_vol2_2001.pdf [2.3MB] (application/pdf)
• Building of Economics at Adelaide since 1901 - Building_of_Economics_at_Adelaide_rev2004.pdf [823.4K] (application/pdf)
• Kym Anderson full cv - acv0210.pdf [254.3K] (application/pdf)

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Economics, Wine and viticulture
Expertise	East Asian economies; China; Indonesia; trade policy (Australian and overseas); Asia - economics; China (economy, acceptance into the WTO - World Trade Organization - training of Chinese trade officials in Australia); Joseph Fisher Lectures in Economics; Indonesian economics; wine economics; international wine market; Third World
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Entry last updated: Sunday, 7 Feb 2010