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 of Nutrition, with a secondary appointment in Tufts University's Department of Economics. He is coauthor of the new textbook on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Before coming to Tufts in 2010 he 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 former editor-in-chief of the journal Agricultural Economics (2006-2011), and an elected Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition (FASN) as well as a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). At Tufts his courses on economics of agriculture, food and nutrition were recognized with student-nominated, University-wide teaching awards in 2019 and 2022, and he leads over a million dollars annually in externally funded research including work on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy (https://www.anh-academy.org), as well as projects supporting government efforts to calculate the cost and affordability of healthy diets worldwide.(https://sites.tufts.edu/foodpricesfornutrition) and work with private enterprises on data analytics for food markets in Africa (https://sites.tufts.edu/dafma)