Kym Anderson

Who is Kym Anderson?

Kym Anderson is an Australian economist, specialising in trade policy and issues related to the World Trade Organization. He studied at the University of New England, the University of Adelaide and the University of Chicago before completing a PhD at Stanford University. He holds a Personal Chair in the School of Economics and is Foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide

He has published around 40 books and more than 300 journal articles and chapters in other books. His most recent two books have received prizes for excellence in research and in communication from the American and Australian agricultural economics associations.

In 1994, Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.