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Honorary degree for former Dean

March 20, 2006

Emeritus Professor Jock AndersonA former Professor of Agricultural Economics at The University of New England, now living in the United States and working as a consultant for the International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Bank, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of the University when he visits UNE next week.

Emeritus Professor Jock Anderson, who came to UNE as a PhD student in the 1960s and stayed on as a staff member, became Dean of UNE’s Faculty of Economic Studies. He moved to the World Bank in 1989.

Professor Anderson (pictured here) will be presented with the honorary degree on Friday 31 March, during the first of UNE’s four Autumn Graduation ceremonies for 2006. He will also give the Occasional Address at that ceremony.

The day before (Thursday 30 March), he will present the annual John L. Dillon Memorial Lecture in UNE’s School of Economics. The public lecture, in the John Dillon Lecture Theatre (Faculty of Economics, Business and Law), will report on current international policies to address famine in Africa and elsewhere. The point of reference for the lecture will be Professor Dillon’s influential publication “Technology versus Hunger: Problems and Prospects” (1984). Professor Dillon, whose UNE career spanned three decades, was a leading figure in international agricultural research policy and administration. For more information on this year’s John Dillon Memorial Lecture, phone Dr Maxine Darnell on (02) 6773 3595.

Professor Anderson served as Deputy Director and Chief Economist of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics and directed the 1984-5 Impact Study of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. After moving to the World Bank, he became the Bank’s Adviser on Agricultural Technology Policy, and later spent two years in the Operations Evaluation Department, where he evaluated Bank lending and non-lending operations in agriculture (including agricultural research), health and education. He also served the Bank as Adviser on Strategy and Policy.

He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and an Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.

The UNE graduation ceremony on Friday 31 March will be for those graduating in Economics, Business and Law. The three other ceremonies will be: Saturday 1 April (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), Friday 7 April (Sciences and Health), and Saturday 8 April (Education and Professional Studies).

Posted by Leon Braun at March 20, 2006 03:43 PM