Professor Renato Andrin (Rene) Villano
Professor - Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law; UNE Business School
Biography
Rene Villano is a Professor of Economics focusing on the area of agricultural economics, applied econometrics, development economics, and socio-economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and has over 25 years of experience conducting research for development projects across Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. His work focuses on the analysis of farmer behaviour, farming systems, gender, poverty and food security, agribusiness, impact evaluation, and social and poverty analysis. Recently, he was a member of a multidisciplinary project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) in Indonesia, South Africa, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
He is an educator and active higher degree research supervisor. He has successfully supervised to completion more than 30 PhD and several dozens of Masters and Honours students. He continues and enjoys teaching in the area of business analytics and statistics, econometrics, and research methods. He was a recipient of the UNE’s Awards for Teaching Excellence and the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (ALTC Citation). He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE).
He has published in leading international and regional journals. He was a former Assistant Scientist and Visiting Research Fellow at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Los Baños, Philippines. He is also an Honorary Professor at Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, China. He was formerly an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics and the ASEAN Journal of Economics, Management, and Accounting.
