Matin Qaim

Bio

Matin Qaim is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany. Before, he had research and teaching positions at the Universities of Goettingen, Hohenheim, Bonn, Kiel, and California at Berkeley

Professor Qaim holds a PhD from U Bonn (2000) and an MSc from U Kiel (1996). His main research relates to food security and sustainable development, particularly focusing on agriculture-nutrition linkages and the role of technical and institutional change. He has worked in numerous countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Qaim has over 200 publications in leading field journals of agricultural economics and other disciplines (development, nutrition, plant sciences, agronomy, etc.) and in top general interest journals (Science, Nature Group, PNAS). Qaim is member of the German National Academy of Sciences (2018) and Fellow of the American Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA, 2019). He has served the IAAE and the broader profession in various capacities, including as associate editor or editorial board member of Agricultural Economics (2007-2012), AJAE (since 2018), Food Policy (since 2007), Annual Review of Resource Economics (since 2015), and as founding director of the GlobalFood (2011-2020) und SustainableFood (since 2021) International PhD Programs at Goettingen. Qaim has supervised over 60 PhD students, more than half from developing countries. Read more