Development Resilience: Theory, Measurement, & Implications

Dr. Christopher (Chris) Barrett is the David J. Nolan Director, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and an International Professor of Agriculture, at Cornell University.  He is also a Professor in the Department of Economics and a Fellow of the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, also at Cornell University. He holds degrees from Princeton (A.B., History, 1984), Oxford (M.S., Development Economics, 1985), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (dual Ph.D., Economics and Agricultural Economics, 1994).

Chris has published/has in press 14 books and more than 260 journal articles or book chapters. These works have attracted more than 15,000 citations, according to Google Scholar. He has been principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on more than $28 million in extramural research grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and various other corporate, foundation, government agency, and nongovernmental organization sponsors. He has supervised more than 60 graduate students and post-docs, many of whom are now on leading faculties and in research institutes worldwide. He served as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 2003–2008, edits the Palgrave Macmillan book series Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, and is presently an associate editor or editorial board member of the African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Egerton (Kenya) Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, the European Review of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of African Economies, the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, the Journal of Development Studies, and World Development. He previously served as President of the Association of Christian Economists and on a variety of boards.

He has won several university, national, and international awards for teaching, research, and public outreach, and is an elected Fellow of both of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and of the African Association of Agricultural Economists.