Gerald Shively

Gerald Shively (born 1962) is an American economist and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University.

[1] From 2007-2015 he also served as an adjunct professor in the School of Economics and Business at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, Norway.

[5] In December 2018, he became the Chair of the Publications Review Committee for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC.

As of January 2019, we was also serving as a Faculty Fellow for Global Affairs in Purdue University's Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships.

[8] His early research on smallholder-led deforestation was profiled in the story A Shifting Equation Links Modern Farming and Forests, which appeared in the November 12, 1999 issue of Science.

[11] He received the 2018 Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association[12] and on December 11, 2018 his name was entered into Purdue University's Book of Great Teachers.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 114(2017):903-908. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1524482114[17] Land Use Change in Tropical Watersheds: Evidence, Causes, and Remedies.

Gerald Shively presenting at a conference
Gerald Shively presenting at the June 15, 2011 policy conference “Counting on the Environment,” held at The Royal Society , in the UK.