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JOCK Robert ANDERSON)22 July 2014 (mismanaged sometime after November 2012 so that the link to the list of publications no longer works…) (prepared by ASSA, updated 14 May 2014) Personal: Born: 23 January 1941, at Monto, Qld. Australia. Cell: 1 (202) 407 0653 Skype: jock1289 Recent past contact: MSN MC-5-515, World Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA Private Fax 1(301)754 1305 Present e-contact: jock.r.anderson@ Degrees:B.Agr.Sc. (Hons I) 1963, M.Agr.Sc. 1965, University of Queensland; Ph.D. 1970, Doctor of Economics 1981, University of New England Awards and Professional Elections: 1981 President, Australian Agricultural Economics Society 1981 Exchange Fellow in the Academies’ Australia-China Exchange in the Social Sciences 1984 Distinguished Foreign Scholar, Mid-America State Universities Association 1985 Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 1992 Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of New England, Armidale NSW 1996 Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association [AJAE 78(5), xx] 2000 Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) 2003 Distinguished Fellow, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society [AJARE 47(3), 291-3] 2003 Honorary Life Membership of the International Association of Agricultural Economists 2006 Doctor of the University (h.c.), University of New England Selected Staff Positions Held: 1966-88 University of New England (UNE), Armidale 2351, Australia:66-69 Research Fellow (Wool), Department of Farm Management; 70 Lecturer in Economic Statistics; 71-72 Lecturer, 73-74 Senior Lecturer, 75-83 Associate Professor, and 84-91 Professor in Agricultural Economics & Business Management (1978-79, 1989-91 on leave); 80-82 Dean, Faculty of Economic Studies; 86-88 Head, Department of Agricultural Economics & Business Management, 1992- Emeritus Professor of Agric. Economics 1978-79 Deputy Director and Chief Research Economist, Bureau of Agric. Economics (later ABARE), Canberra 1989-2003 World Bank, 1818 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA: 89-93 Principal Economist, Agricultural Policies Division, Agriculture and Rural Development Department; 94-95 Adviser (Agricultural Technology), Agriculture and Natural Resources Department; 96-98 Evaluation Adviser!, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank; 98-00 Portfolio Adviser, 00-01 Strategy and Policy Adviser, 02-03, Agriculture and Rural Development Department (retired Jan. 31, 2003). [Evaluation activities are flagged by!] World Bank Work: Selected Consultancies: Director, Study of the Impact of the International Agricultural Research Centers, CGIAR Secretariat, (1984-6)! Lead Consultant, Agriculture & Agribusiness Evaluation, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), 2008-10! Selected Staff Activities (1989-03): Bank Review - Chair, ESDAR Review Committee, 1998; Member, Quality Assurance Group! (QAG) Review of Supervision in Agricultural Research Projects (Africa Region)!, 1999; Manager, Oversight of the Bank’s Rural Portfolio (1999); other QAG reviews of ESW, Quality at Entry, and Supervision (2000-02); Member, World Bank Research Committee (Small Grants) 2002-05. Selected Other Review Activities: Member of the ad hoc advisory committee of the Commonwealth Special Research Grant (1979-81) Chair, Mid-Term Review of the Bangladesh Ag. Research Project II (IADS for USAID), (1983)! Member, External Review of the Multiple Cropping Department, IRRI, (Philippines 1986)! Lead Evaluation Consultant, IFAD, Rome (Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon 1987)! Member, Review of Ag. Research Needs in the Mediterranean Climatic Region of Australia, CSIRO (1988)! Member, External Review Panel, Crop Management Research Program, IITA, (Nigeria 1989)! Chairperson, Internally Managed Extl Rev of the CIMMYT Economics Program (Mexico 1991, 94, 97)! Chair, External Program and Mgt. Review of ICARDA, (Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan 1993)! Panelist, Strategic Review of Natural Resource Management Research in the CGIAR, TAC (Rome 1995)! Panelist, Strategic Review of Policy and Public Management Research in the CGIAR, (Santiago 1995)! Chair, Internally Commissioned External Review, CIFOR (Bogor 1995)! Member, Internally Managed Review of Soil, Water and Nutrient Management research, ICRISAT (1996)! Member, External Review of CLIMA, Perth, (Australia 1997)! Member, Review of the (South African) Agricultural Research Council Review, (Pretoria 1997)! Chair, Internally Commissioned Review of the NRM Program, ICRISAT (India, Vietnam, Mali 2000)! Chair, Center- and TAC-Commissioned External Review of the System-wide Livestock Program, (managed by ILRI) (India, Syria, Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia 2001)! Leader, Impact Study for the EPMR, ISNAR, The Hague (2002)! Member, External Review of the Rice-Wheat Consortium, Kathmandu & Delhi, (2003)! (Report) Consultant, Reforming the State Ag Universities, HRD, and NAIP, World Bank, New Delhi (2003, 2005) Chair, External Review of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, RSA (Oct. 2007)! Visiting Senior Research Fellow (coordinating Impact Assessment), IFPRI, Washington, DC (2004-7)! Team Leader, Evaluation of FAO’s Role and Work in Food and Agriculture Policy, OED, FAO of UN, Rome (2011)! Team Leader, Third-Party Independent Evaluation of Pakistan Ag. Research Council (for IFPRI, 2012)! Team Leader, Rapid Assessment of Oversight Functions in FAO (Rome, 2013)! Selected Editorial Positions Held: 1988-90Member, Editorial Board, Agricultural Systems (UK) 1975-80Member, Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Management 1978-80Joint Editor (with J.B. Hardaker), Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 1978-80Member, Editorial Council, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1986-90Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1998-2003 Member, Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2003-Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Agriculture Journal 2012-Member, Editorial Board of Agricultural Economics Research Review, official publication of the Agricultural Economics Research Association (India) Professional Interests: Institutional and strategic aspects of environmentally sustainable rural development, with particular concern for agriculture and natural resources, policy analysis, and the rural non-farm economy. Economics of agricultural technology generation and transfer, with particular concern for natural resource management, and efficacy of investment in agricultural researchlocal, national and international. Economics of uncertainty, with particular concern for risk management in agriculture, for dealing with risk in project appraisal, and for the role of risk in farmers’ technological choice. Project and program evaluation, with emphasis on natural resources and rural development! Overview of Published Works Most of the published work (in some 20 books, some 50 monographs and some 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals) has been in the application of economic principles and statistical methods to problems in agricultural and economic research and management, including on economic development, the economics of agricultural research in general, and the assessment of the impact of agricultural research in particular, A list of publications is available at: ???? ................
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