| G. EDWARD SCHUH
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Regents Professor Emeritus
Office: 155 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-8388
E-mail: schuh@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: agricultural and food policy; economic development; international trade and exchange rate policy; international financial markets; family policy and population; poverty alleviation and food security; science and technology policy
G. Edward Schuh has contributed internationally as an educator, administrator, adviser, consultant, and author in the areas of economics and agriculture, with particular interest in subjects including agricultural and food policy, economic development, international trade, and exchange rate policy. His work has included extensive travel throughout the world with particular emphasis on South America and Latin America. He is the author or co-author of six books, has edited an additional six books, and has over 100 technical and scientific papers to his credit.
On behalf of the Freeman Center, Schuh maintains linkages with organizations that have similar interests and goals. Appointed by the President of the United States, Schuh chairs the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, which advises the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Schuh also chairs the University of Minnesota Rural Development Council, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Schuh is involved in projects with many other organizations including the United States Food Security Advisory Committee, the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, the US National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, the Carter Center, the Sasakawa Africa Association, Minnesota Meeting, Thailand-Minnesota Program, Minnesota Technology Organization, and the International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC).
Schuh has held a variety of positions in university settings and governmental organizations. Just prior to assuming the Freeman Center Chair in 1997, Schuh had been dean of the Humphrey Institute for ten years. Schuh held both faculty and administrative positions in the department of agricultural economics at Purdue University and in the department of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Minnesota. He also served as program advisor to the Ford Foundation in Brazil, as senior staff economist on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors, as Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs at the US Department of Agriculture, and as the World Bank's director of agriculture and rural development.
Schuh is actively involved in a number of activities surrounding economics and agriculture. A foremost priority for Ed Schuh is the promotion of research. Current efforts include three projects: Helping Minnesota Agriculture, Monetary Issues and the International Competitiveness of US Agriculture, and Minnesota's Growing Exposure to the Global Economy. Schuh is highly committed to his teaching at the Humphrey Institute, providing courses on economic development and economic development of Latin America.
G. Edward Schuh holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural education from Purdue University, a master's of science degree in agricultural economics from Michigan State University, and a master's of arts and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He has received five professional awards from the American Agricultural Economics Association: (1) best Ph.D. dissertation, in 1961; (2) best published research, in 1971; (3) best journal article, in 1974; and (4) contributions to policy analysis, in 1979; and (5) publication of enduring value, in 1988. He was named Professor Honoris Causis at the Federal University of Vicosa in 1965, and received the degree of Doctor of Agriculture, honoris causis, from Purdue University in 1992. In the spring of 1998 Schuh was elected a Regents Professor, the highest academic honor that can be bestowed on a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. In 1998 Schuh also had a classroom named after him in the department of agricultural economics and rural sociology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil for his contributions to the university over the years. |
