Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Gray joined the faculty at Purdue University in August 1998. His research interests are agribusiness management, strategic planning, decision making under uncertainty, and simulation. Current research is being conducted on the attitudes and buying behaviors of large commercial producers, the impacts of alternative farm policy proposals, and the management implications of real options thinking.

His publications cover a range of topics including the implications of the 2002 farm bill for agricultural producers, a simulation approach to agribusiness behavior modeling, and risk/reward sharing in vertical arrangements between producers and processors. Dr. Gray is responsible for teaching Statistics for Decision-Making at the Masters of Science level, Strategic Agribusiness Management at the Ph.D. level, and Quantitative Analysis in the distance based EMBA program.

Dr. Gray has won numerous awards including The American Agricultural Economics Association’s Distinguished Policy Contribution Award and The United States Distance Learning Association’s Excellence in Distance Teaching Award.