Dr. Ruttan is Regents' Professor in the Department of Economic and Applied Economics and an Adjunct Professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.  He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He served as a staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during the period 1961-1963 and as President of the Agricultural Development Council between 1973-1978. He has authored Agricultural Research Policy, Agricultural Development: An International Perspective; Agriculture, Environment, and Health: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century; United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. He is currently completing a book, Technology, Growth and Development to be published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Ruttan has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976),  the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1990).

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