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Brief biographical sketch
David Blandford is a professor of agricultural
and environmental economics in
the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a professor
in the School of International Affairs.
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 international
impact of agricultural policies in OECD countries.
From 1998-2004, he served as the head of the AE&RS
Department at the Pennsylvania State University.
Blandford has twice served as
the chair of the International Agricultural Trade Research
Consortium - a group of economists drawn from academia,
government and the private sector from the North America and
around the world. He is the current president elect of the
Agricultural Economics Society (2010-11) in the United
Kingdom.
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