Steven Jaffee

Dr. Steven Jaffee is a Lecturer at the University of Maryland’s Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, and otherwise, an independent advisor and researcher. He recently retired from the World Bank where he worked for twenty-nine years. His research, policy and investment project work has spanned many themes including food security, food safety, agricultural risk management, agricultural policy, value chain development, and trade and standards compliance. He has had extensive field and policy experience in Africa and Southeast Asia. He led the team which recently produced The Safe Food Imperative: Accelerating Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. During the past several years, he has co-led major regional studies related to emerging Asia and (i) rice and food security, (ii) urban food systems, (iii) agri-food system transformation, (iv) agricultural pollution, and (iv) reducing the environmental footprint of export agriculture.  He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a DPhil in agricultural economics from Oxford University.