Patrick Westhoff is Co-Director of 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.
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