The Department of Applied Economics and Management
faculty are leading research scholars
who explore business and economic issues from
around the globe. They hold advanced degrees
in business, applied economics, agricultural
economics, law, statistics, and accounting.
Their work covers a wide range of topics,
including research on such critical and newsworthy
issues as the economic bailout and credit-market
meltdown; obesity and food policy; emerging markets
in Africa, China, India, and Latin America; food
aid, global poverty, and hunger; investments
and international finance; new business formation
and commercialization of new technologies; biofuels;
agricultural production, marketing, and policy;
and biotechnology.
The following AEM faculty encourage members of
the media to contact them on issues related to
their areas of expertise. Complete faculty profiles,
including their recent research publications,
honors and awards, and education, can be viewed
by clicking on their names. Links to profile
pages of all AEM faculty are provided in the
drop-down menu in the left-hand column of this page.
| Faculty
Expert
|
Areas
of Expertise |
Preferred
Contact Information
|
Christopher
Barrett
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley
Professor of Applied Economics and Management |
• Poverty
• Hunger
• International development
• Africa
• Agricultural development
• Food aid
• Food insecurity
• Tropical biodiversity
• Sustainable development
• Foreign aid
|
Email: cbb2@cornell.edu |
Antonio Bento
Associate Professor |
• Energy
• Climate
• Land use
|
Email: amb396@cornell.edu |
Nelson Bills
Professor |
• Rural land use
• Resource economics
• State and local farmland protection
• Property taxation
• Farmland markets and values
• Regional economic analysis
|
Email: nlb4@cornell.edu |
William Drake
Senior Extension Associate |
• Food retailing issues |
Email: wed5@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255.2033
|
Brent Gloy
Associate Professor and Department Extension
Leader
|
• Agricultural finance
• Agricultural financial markets
• Renewable energy
|
Email:
bg49@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255.9822
|
Miguel Gomez
Assistant Professor |
• Food marketing
• Horticultural products marketing:
fruits, vegetables, ornamentals
• Wine marketing |
Cell Ph: 607.351.7241
Email: mig7@cornell.edu |
Brian Henehan
Senior Extension Associate |
• Agricultural cooperatives
• Agribusiness marketing
|
Email: bmh5@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255.8800
|
David Just
Associate Professor |
• Ethanol policy
• Obesity and food policies
|
Email: drj3@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255.2086
|
Steven Kyle
Associate Professor
|
• Fiscal, monetary, and
exchange rate policy
• The continuing bailouts and credit
market meltdown
• Oil markets
|
Email: sck5@cornell.edu |
David Lee
Professor |
• Economics of sustainable
agriculture and natural resource management
• Economic devleopment of Latin America
• Agricultural and international trade
policy
• Watershed management
• Agricultural research and technology
policy
• Economics of climate change |
Email: drl5@cornell.edu
W Ph: 607.255.7685
H Ph: 607.539.7726 |
Aija Leiponen
Associate Professor |
• Innovation
• Technological change
• Commercialization of new technologies
|
Email: aija.leiponen@cornell.edu
Cell Ph: 607.262.0771 |
William Lesser
Susan Eckert Lynch Professor of Science
and Business
|
• Agricultural biotechnology:
implications for farmers and consumers,
domestic and international
• Operation and ramifications of patents
for plants and animals |
Email: whl1@cornell.edu |
David Ng
Associate Professor |
• International finance
• Investments |
Email: dtn4@cornell.edu |
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition,
and Public Policy (recipient of the
2001 World Food Prize) |
• Globallization
• Poverty
• Food and nutrition policy |
Email: pp94@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255.9429
|
Eswar Prasad
Nandlal P. Tolani Professor of Trade
Policy |
• Globalization
• Financial markets
• Emerging markets
• China
• India
|
Email: eswar.prasad@cornell.edu |
Jeff Prince
Assistant Professor |
• The Digital Divide
• Demand for technology and technology
diffusion
• Durable goods demand
• Industrial organization |
Email: jtp35@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.254.4744
|
Christine Ranney
Associate Professor |
• Well-being of U.S.
households
• Personal bankruptcy
• Vulnerable groups (e.g., the elderly,
low-income households)
* How food and nutrition policies affect
nutrition, food expenditures, and well-being
|
Email: ckr2@cornell.edu |
Todd Schmit
Assistant Professor |
• Ag-based economic development
• Agribusiness management and marketing
|
Email: tms1@cornell.edu |
Deborah Streeter
Bruce F. Failing, Sr., Professor of Personal
Enterprise
|
• Entrepreneurship in
general
• Venture and new business formation
• Entrepreneurship education
• Business planning
• Small-business topics, expecially those
related to people issues or leadership
• Rich media (video, audio): uses in
education and business
• University commercialization/technology
transfer
• Experiential learning
• Women in business
• Leadership
|
Email: dhs4@cornell.edu |
Loren Tauer
Professor and Department Chair |
• Dairy farming economics
• Economics of animal disease control
(e.g., Johne's disease) |
Email: lwt1@cornell.edu
Ph: 607.255/4402
|
