Peter Timmer
Title
Advisor, Agricultural Development Strategy
Organization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
C. Peter Timmer is a leading authority on agricultural development and structural transformation during the process of economic growth. He has served as a professor at Stanford, Cornell, three faculties at Harvard, and the University of California, San Diego, where he was also the dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. A core advisor on the World Bank’s World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, Timmer has long worked with a number of Asian governments on domestic food and agricultural policies and, recently, on their responses to the crisis in the global rice market. He is an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on agricultural development strategy and was the principal analyst for the Asia Society-IRRI Task Force on Food Security and Sustainability in Asia.
Posts By Peter Timmer
The recent release of the Food Price Watch report by the World Bank serves as a stark reminder that continuing high and volatile food prices are putting the poorest in the developing world at risk.
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