Developing Leaders and Improving Lives in the World's Developing Countries
Robert Herdt
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
International Programs and Department of Applied Economics and Management
31 Warren Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
United States
Office: +1.607.255.8802
eMail: rwh13@cornell.edu
I serve as Adjunct International Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) and the International Program of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University where I am advisor to the Director of International Programs (IPCALS). I also serve as a member of the Advisory Council to the Cornell Institute for International Food and Agriculture CIIFAD, and a member of the Advisory Committee for The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL).
Before coming to Cornell I was Director of the Rockefeller Foundation Agricultural program and Vice President. Earlier in my career, for ten years I was Agricultural Economist in the Philippines at the International Rice Research Institute. I also worked in India with the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations in the 1960s and on the faculty of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois (1969 to 1973) and on the staff of the Secretariat of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. (1983 to 1986).
Currently my interests include how development aid is used to improve the well-being of poor agriculturally-dependent people in developing countries and especially in the role of technological change in raising the productivity of farming systems. My recent publications include work on research management, intellectual property rights, the economics of technological change and the role of biotechnology in developing country agriculture.