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 A native of Texas, Dr. Tyner studied chemistry as an undergraduate student and spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Tyner is Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His research has concentrated on economic and trade policy analysis related to agriculture, energy, and natural resources. Much of his recent work has focused on energy policy. He has published extensively in these areas including three books and over one hundred professional publications.
He has 30 years of professional work experience including extensive long term and short term experience in developing countries. Dr. Tyner spent two years in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer in poultry development. He spent three years (1985-88) in Morocco working as Senior Agricultural Economist and Deputy Team Leader for a project on planning, economics, and statistics for agriculture. Dr. Tyner was responsible for building agricultural policy analysis capability in the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture. Since 1988, he has had over 35 short-term assignments in Morocco. Dr. Tyner has short-term experience in Senegal, Mali, Niger, the Gambia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, India, Bangladesh, China, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. He is fluent in French.
Dr. Tyner was Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1989 to 2002, during which time the department increased in stature and national and international recognition, launched innovative programs with an international focus, achieved 20 percent undergraduate participation in study abroad, maintained funding and faculty numbers, became more diverse, and hired outstanding new faculty.
Dr. Tyner teaches a graduate level course on benefit-cost analysis with emphasis on agricultural policy and project evaluation in developing countries. He also teaches an undergraduate course in international economic development. Dr. Tyner and his students have received research awards from Purdue and the AAEA. In 2005 he received the AAEA Distinguished Policy Contribution Award. He teaches a graduate course in benefit-cost analysis and an undergraduate course in international economic development.
More recently, Dr. Tyner received the Energy Patriot Award from Senator Richard Lugar at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. You can see pictures and read an article about Dr. Tyner at http://www.lugar.senate.gov/energy/links/patriot/#1.
Professor Tyner is author or co-author of three books: Energy Resources and Economic Development in India; Western Coal: Promise or Problem (with R. J. Kalter); and A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy (with Lance McKinzie and Tim Baker).
Recent publications include “U.S. Ethanol Policy – Possibilities for the Future.” Purdue Extension Publication ID-342, 2007; “Comparison of A Fixed and Variable Corn Ethanol Subsidy” Choices, Volume 21, No. 3, 2006; “Economics of Ethanol.” Purdue Extension Publication ID-339, 2006; “Policy Options to Improve Water Allocation Efficiency: Analysis on Egypt and Morocco” (with Lixia He and Gamal Siam), Water International 2006; “Farm Income Stabilization: A Central Goal for American and European Policies” (with Jacquet and Gray), EAAE 2005; Middle East and North Africa: Reaching the Rural Poor – Rural Development Strategy. World Bank, August 2001; “Agricultural Policy Analysis Needed to Ensure that the Economic Policy Set is Aligned with the Climatic Reality.” Plenary paper presented at the Association Marocaine de l’Agro-Economie, May 2001, Rabat, Morocco; "Analysis of the Impacts of Reducing Maize Protection Levels on the Moroccan Poultry Sector" (with Channing Arndt and Hassan Serghini), abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1995); "Structural Adjustment Policies and Agricultural Development in Morocco" (with Mokhtar Bouanani), Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Role of International Cooperation (proceedings of 21st IAAE conference, 1992); "Impacts of Feed Ingredient Subsidy Removal and Concurrent Trade Liberalization in Tunisia" (with Patricia Kristjanson), Agricultural Economics (1992); and "The Economics of Wheat Production in Morocco" (with Philip Abbott, Michael Roth, and Giles Rafsnider), Journal of Agricultural Economics (1991). |