Pat Westhoff
Research Associate Professor
Program Director
International Affairs
FAPRI
University of Missouri-Columbia
101 South Fifth Street
Columbia, MO 65201
Phone: (573) 882-4647
FAX: (573) 884-4688
email:
Pat Westhoff is a program director with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) and a research associate professor in the department of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri.
He is a native of Manchester, Iowa, where he grew up on the family dairy farm. He obtained a B.A. in political science from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Iowa State University.
Prior to joining FAPRI-Missouri in August 1996, he served four years as the chief economist for the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. From 1983 to 1992, he worked at Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) for FAPRI-Iowa State. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 1979 to 1981.
He is married to Elena Vega, and they have three children, Christina, Benjamin, and Maria.
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