William Masters

William Masters

(617) 636-3751
150 Harrison Ave, Room 251
Research/Areas of Interest:

Economics and policy analysis for agriculture, food and nutrition

Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, 1991
  • BA, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 1984
  • ND, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA, United States, 1981

Biography

Will Masters is a Professor in the Friedman School, with a secondary appointment in Tufts University's Department of Economics. His research uses economic methods to inform and improve the food system, especially in developing countries. From 2011 to 2014 he served as chair of the Friedman School's Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, and before coming to Tufts was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), and also at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90), Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (2000) and Columbia University (2003-04). He is the co-author of an undergraduate textbook, Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use (Routledge, 4th ed. 2021), and former editor-in-chief of the journal Agricultural Economics (2006-2011). He was named an International Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (2010), and elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in 2020, from which he received the Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis (2013), the Publication of Enduring Quality Award (2014), the Quality of Research Discovery Award (2019) and the Quality of Communications Award (2022).