Gerald Shively

Gerald “Jerry” Shively currently serves as Associate Dean and Director of International Programs in Agriculture, and is Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. After earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics at Boston University, in 1988 he joined the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, where he contributed to research on economic reform in Africa. Jerry’s early impacts on our profession can be traced to Taylor Hall at the University of Wisconsin, where as a graduate student and MacArthur Foundation Fellow he published his first AJAE article and served as President of the department's Taylor-Hibbard graduate student club. While a student, he spent a year in the Philippines conducting dissertation fieldwork as a Fulbright Scholar.

Jerry’s faculty career began at Purdue University in 1996. He rose rapidly through the ranks and has remained at Purdue as a full professor since 2004. He has been an active AAEA member throughout his career, serving as Chair of the International Section; organizing, contributing to, and presiding over dozens of paper sessions at annual meetings; serving numerous times as a selected paper reviewer and member of the outstanding thesis and dissertation selection committees; and contributing to AAEA mentoring activities. He was recognized by the AAEA for his dissertation in 1997 and received the association's Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in 2018. An outstanding researcher and teacher with global reach and impact, in 2016 he was elected Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economics and in 2018 was made an Honorary Life Member (Fellow) of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), the same year he was inducted into Purdue's Book of Great Teachers.

Dr. Shively is the author or co-author of more than 200 scholarly contributions. He has published frequently and widely with more than 100 students and colleagues, including in top scientific journals, in our profession's flagship outlets, and in top field journals. His research interests and contributions range widely but are strongly anchored in using empirical techniques to uncover features of market performance or failure along with their food security and environmental impacts. This dedication to rigorously working on problems of practical significance, especially those at the intersection of agriculture and the human condition, is emblematic of Jerry's research program. His longstanding concern regarding child malnutrition is a case in point, as is his work on food prices and market integration in Africa and Asia. In recognition of his many research achievements, in 2007 Dr. Shively received Purdue University's Agricultural Research Award, in 2009 he was designated a University Faculty Scholar, and in 2019 he was named a Purdue Faculty Fellow for Global Affairs. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, USAID, USDA and the World Bank.

For nearly three decades, Dr. Shively's teaching portfolio included award-winning undergraduate and graduate instruction at Purdue University, and he has delivered instruction and served on student committees throughout Africa and Asia. He has mentored Borlaug, Fulbright, NSF, and USDA National Needs fellows, and has been an active participant in the AAEA teaching and learning community, the USAID Initiative for Long-term Training and Capacity Building (UILTCB), the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and the Mandela Washington Fellows program. He spent 2003-2004 as a visiting faculty member in the Department of Economics and the Asian Economics Centre at the University of Melbourne, and from 2007 to 2015 he served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics and Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

In addition to serving for nearly a decade between 2006 and 2015 as Editor and co-Editor of Agricultural Economics, between 2013 and 2020 he served on the Editorial Boards for Land Economics and Environment and Development Economics. His global leadership includes service to numerous universities and public and non-governmental organizations, including the African Economic Research Consortium, the U.S. Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the United Nations World Food Programme, and the World Bank.