Dr. Gary W.
Williams
 Dr. Williams
is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Co-Director of the Agribusiness, Food, and
Consumer Economics Research Center (AFCERC). He is the AFCERC chief operations
officer responsible for managing the research program of the Center and leads
AFCERC research and outreach projects relating to commodity and agribusiness
markets and policy and international trade and policy. He is also Senior Scientist, Norman
Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. His areas of teaching
and research emphases include commodity promotion programs, international
agricultural trade and development, agricultural policy, and marketing and
price analysis. Dr. Williams was
raised in Lubbock, Texas and is a 1968 graduate of Monterey High School. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in
Agricultural Economics from Purdue University (1978 and 1981) and a B.S. in
Economics from Brigham Young University (1974). Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M University, he gained experience as a
professor and Assistant Coordinator of the Meat Export Research Center at
Iowa State University, Senior Economist at Chase Econometrics, agricultural
economist for the USDA, and Special Assistant to the U.S. Deputy Under
Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs at
USDA. Dr. Williams speaks fluent
Spanish and has lived and worked in Latin America throughout his career,
focusing particularly on NAFTA (now the USMCA) and other agricultural trade,
policy, and development issues. In recent years, he has become particularly
well known for his research on the economic effectiveness of commodity
advertising and promotion programs, including those for soybeans, dairy,
cotton, lamb, Florida orange juice, Texas citrus, Texas and U.S. pecans, agricultural
export programs, Norwegian seafood, and others. He is also well known for his research
on U.S. and world oilseed and oilseed product markets and the U.S. livestock
industry including issues related to sheep and lamb markets and the effects
of concentration in the beef packing industry. He served as Chair of a National
Academy of Science Committee on the Status and Economic Performance of the
U.S. Sheep and Lamb Industry (see the Committee report: Changes in the
Sheep Industry in the United States: Making the Transition from Tradition).
He also served
as a member of a National Academy of Science Committee on the Future of
Animal Science Research (see Committee report: Critical Role of Animal
Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability). He now serves
as a member of the Review Oversight Committee for the Genome Canada funded
Project: “Application of Genomics to Improve Disease Resilience and
Sustainability in Pork Production”.
Special Focus: Marketing, commodity promotion programs,
international trade and development, and agricultural and trade policy.
Office Phone: (979) 845-5911
E-mail: gwwilliams@tamu.edu
Homepage: Agribusiness,
Food, and Consumer Economics Research Center (AFCERC)
Curriculum Vitae: Download
Courses Taught at
Texas A&M (English):
· AGEC 652: International
Agribusiness Trade Analysis – Dept. of Ag. Econ. (Fall Semester)
· INTA 630: International Economic Development – Bush School
(Fall Semester)
· AGEC 429: Agricultural Policy
– Dept. of Ag. Econ. (Spring Semester)
Courses Taught at Various Latin
American Universities (Spanish):
· Comercio Internacional I
(La teoría de equilibrio general de comercio internacional)
· Comercio Internacional II (El
análisis de comercio internacional dentro del marco de equilibrio parcial)
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