William H. Meyers is the Director of International Agriculture Programs and Howard Cowden Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri. He has been Interim Director for the Division of Applied Social Sciences in 2011 and Co-Director, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri from 2003 – 2010. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, an MS from University of the Philippines, and a BA from Goshen College. Prior to coming to MU, Dr. Meyers was a Professor of Economics at Iowa State University (ISU), where he lived and worked most of the time since 1979. He was Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations from July 1999 to July 2002, while on leave from ISU. He was Visiting Consultant at the World Bank January to June 1999, Interim Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) 1996 to 1998, Associate Director of CARD from 1985- 1996, Co-Director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at Iowa State University from 1984 to 1998, and Executive Director of the Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center from 1987 to 1998. He has been an Agricultural Economist at the Economic Research Service of USDA, a Research Fellow at the International Rice Research Institute, a Visiting Professor at the University of Kiel, and has directed USAID funded projects in Ukraine, Hungary, Indonesia, Zambia, Jamaica, and Honduras. He has also worked extensively on agricultural and rural policy studies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after they regained independence. Dr. Meyers has authored numerous publications on trade, agricultural and rural policy, commodity market analysis, and transition economics. He is co-author of “Refocusing Agricultural and Rural Development Policies in Ukraine: Action Plan for the Road Ahead” by IBI and USAID (2005) and co-editor of two books: “Exchange Rate Volatility and Agricultural Trade” by Captus Press (2002) and “Lithuania’s Accession to the European Union: Successes and Challenges for a Rural Economy in Transition” by Iowa State University Press (1999).
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