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Stanford Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) will have its twelfth meeting and lecture of the 2003-04 school year on Monday, May 10 at 7:00 pm in the Donald Kennedy room of the Haas Center (directions below). All are welcome to attend and participate: students, faculty, staff, community members---so tell all your friends and colleagues!
This week, Dr. Wally Falcon will present some of his experiences in development policy, with “Four Lessons Learned From Forty Years of Policy Advice on Agriculture and the Environment.”
Dr. Walter P. Falcon is Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Professor Emeritus of Economics, and Helen Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy at Stanford University. He grew up in rural Iowa and received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1958. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1962 and spent the next ten years on the Harvard faculty. In 1972 he moved to Stanford University?s Food Research Institute where he served as Professor and Director until 1991. His specialty is agricultural policy in developing countries. He began his research and policy advice in Indonesia in 1968 and has spent several months each year in residence since then. He has co-authored three volumes on Indonesian agriculture and has given numerous food-policy short courses at the Indonesia Food Ministry. His 1971 essay on the ?Green Revolution? was honored with a research award by the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), as was his 1983 co-authored volume, Food Policy Analysis. He has consulted with numerous international organizations, and he has been a Trustee of Winrock International and Chairman of the Board for the International Rice Research Institute. From 1978-80 he was a member of the Presidential commission on World Hunger. In 1989 he was cited as the outstanding graduate of Iowa State University; in 1990 he was named a Fellow of the AAEA; in 1991 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992 he was awarded the prestigious ?Bintang Jasa Utama? medal of merit by the Government of Indonesia for 25 years of assistance with that country?s development effort. From 1996-2001 he was Chairman of the Board of CIMMYT, the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center. At Stanford he has also served as Director of the Institute for International Studies, Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, a member of the Academic Senate, and a member of the Advisory Board of the University.
How to find us
For help finding the Haas Center for the meeting, you can look at the http://campus-map.stanford.edu/campus_map/results.jsp?bldg=haas&;dept=&addr=" target="_blank">Stanford map. Come to the front door on the east side, with the small porch, one of us will be there to greet and direct you. The DK room is straight ahead and to the right when you enter the front door.
You can find more information on our mission, goals and activities on the http://esw.stanford.edu";>chapter website.
Questions or comments for the chapter leadership can be addressed to lightbulb@lists.stanford.edu">lightbulb@lists.stanford.edu.