Gordon Rausser

Gordon Rausser is an American economist. He is currently the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, at Rausser College of Natural Resources and more recently, a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. On three separate occasions, he served as chairman of the [https://are.berkeley.edu/ Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics], served two terms as Dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources, and has served on the board of trustees of public universities and one private university. Rausser has been appointed to more than 20 board of directors of both private and publicly traded companies, including chairman of several of such boards.

His federal government service includes Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, Chief Economist at the Agency for International Development and as President of the Institute for Policy Reform.

Rausser's editorship contributions include serving as editor of the ''American Journal of Agricultural Economics'', associate editor of the ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'', associate editor of the ''Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control'', editor of the series ''Agricultural Management and Economics'', co-editor of four volumes of the ''Handbook of Agricultural Economics'', and more than 15 years as the editor of ''Annual Review of Resource Economics''.

He is the recipient of at least 37 professional awards, including Best Journal Articles, Annual Best Published Research awards, and Publications of Enduring Quality from the [https://www.aaea.org/ Agricultural and Applied Economics Association], and outstanding research and/or leadership awards from other associations, such as Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, the American Antitrust Institute, and the [https://waeaonline.org/ Western Agricultural Economics Association]. Rausser also received a Superior Unit Citation Award from the Agency for International Development (1990). Rausser is chairman and co-founder of [https://onpointanalytics.com/ OnPoint Analytics].

He was most recently honored by [https://www.aaea.org/ AAEA] for named keynote addressed at the annual meetings from 2020 forward for exceptional intellectual leadership and his mentoring of leading scholars. He was also honored in 2020 by the permanent naming of the Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley, for his philanthropic contributions. Provided by Wikipedia