Brief biographical sketch

David Blandford is a professor of agricultural economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, he received his Ph.D. from the Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies. From 1975-1990 he was a professor of agricultural trade and marketing at Cornell University. From 1982-83 he was an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. From 1990-1998, he was the head of a division in the OECD's Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, whose role was to analyze the impact of agricultural policies on international markets. From 1998-2004, he served as the head of the AE&RS Department at the Pennsylvania State University.