Mr. Kym Anderson is the George Gollin Professor Emeritus in the School of Economics and Public Policy, and formerly foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, where he has been affiliated since 1984. Previously he was a Research Fellow in Economics at ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (1977-83), following undergraduate studies at the University of New England in Armidale (1967-70), and doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and Stanford University (1974-77). In 2012 he rejoined the Australian National University part-time as a Professor in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics of ANU&Crawford School of Public Policy, and since April 2018 he has been an Honorary Professor there. He is a Research Fellow of Europe's London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the (American) Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, a Distinguished Fellow (and former President) of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, a Fellow (and Vice-President) of the American Association of Wine Economists, and he became a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2003. In 2018 he was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He is on the editorial board of several international academic journals.