William Masters
- Office: KRAN 606
- Phone Number: (765) 494 4235
- E-mail: wmasters@purdue.edu
- Professor and Associate Department Head
- PhD, Stanford University
Will Masters works on agricultural development, markets and trade, particularly in Africa. He teaches a graduate course in agricultural policy and an undergraduate course in economic development, and is co-editor (with Jerry Shively) of Agricultural Economics, the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. Recent books include Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa (World Bank 2009) and a textbook, Economics of Agricultural Development (Routledge 2006). Before joining the Purdue faculty, Prof. Masters attended Deep Springs College (1979-81), then graduated from Yale University (1984), and received a Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University (1991). He has also been a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (1988-1990), a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2000), a visiting professor at Columbia University (2003-04), a consultant to the World Bank as well as other development agencies, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Deep Springs College.