David Orden is senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and professor in the department of agricultural and applied economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales (1990-91), chairman of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (1996-98), and visiting professor at Stanford University (1998-99). He is coauthor of Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis (University of Chicago Press, 1999).