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[2] 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.
[3] In 1994, Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
He has conducted many short courses on agricultural and trade policy issues and WTO matters in numerous developing countries including China since 1995.
[5] Anderson has spent periods of leave at Korea's International Economics Institute (1979), Korea's Rural Economics Institute (1980-81 as Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow in International Economics), the Australian Department of Trade (1983), Stockholm University's Institute for International Economic Studies (1988), the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva (1990–92), and the Research Group of the World Bank in Washington DC (2004–07).