Curriculum Vitae

Professor Hertel conducts research and teaching in the economy-wide analysis of trade and environmental policies. He is also Executive Director and founder of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). This Project maintains a global economic data base and an applied general equilibrium modeling framework which are documented in the book: Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications, edited by Dr. Hertel, and published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.

Professor Hertel has published many journal articles. Several of these have won awards, including: outstanding journal articles in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1989), and the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1991), as well as the Policy Article Prize from the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy for an article in World Economy.

In 2003 Hertel was named Distinguished Professor Agricultural Economics and in 2004 he was made a Fellow of the AAEA. Other awards include: Outstanding Researcher in the Purdue School of Agriculture (1995) and the AAEA Distinguished Policy Contribution Award (1999). His students have also won departmental and national awards for their theses.

Dr. Hertel was visiting scholar with the Trade Research Group of the World Bank in 2004/5 during which time he coordinated a project on the poverty impacts of a prospective WTO agreement under the Doha Development Agenda. This research is forthcoming in a volume co-edited with Alan Winters, as well as several journal articles. In addition to this research, Professor Hertel made presentations to high level policy makers in Geneva, Paris, Brussels, Maputo, Pretoria and Washington.

Dr. Hertel is currently on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Journal of Economic Integration and the Pacific Economic Review. He is also an International Research Fellow with the Kiel Institute of World Economy. In the past he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, UNDP, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Ford Foundation, and the Australian Productivity Commission.