Johan Swinnen

Contact Data

• Address: Kantoorgebouw Waaistraat, Waaistraat 6, 3000 Leuven
• Room: 02.58
• Phone: +32 16 32 65 56
• Fax: +32 16 32 67 96
• Url: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/jo.swinnen
• E-mail: Jo.Swinnen@econ.kuleuven.be
• Office-hours: Tuesday: From 15h00 to 17h, only upon appointment
   

Short Bio

Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, a Centre of Excellence at the University of Leuven (KUL). He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, where he directs the programme on EU agricultural and rural policy. 

He was previously Lead Economist at the World Bank and Economic Advisor at the European Commission.  He consults for the OECD, FAO, EBRD, UNDP, IFAD, and to several Governments and was coordinator of several international research networks on food policy, institutional reforms, and economic development. 

He is President-elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, a Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists and President of the Beeronomics Society. He holds a Ph.D from Cornell University. 

He has published widely on political economy, institutional reform, trade, agricultural and food policy.  His latest books are "The Economics of Beer" (Oxford University Press), “Political Power and Economic Policy” (Cambridge University Press),  “The Perfect Storm: The Political Economy of the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy” (CEPS),  “Global Supply Chains, Standards, and the Poor” (CABI), “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in the Transition Economies of Europe and Central Asia” (The World Bank), and “From Marx and Mao to the Market” (Oxford University Press-Chinese translation by Beijing University Press).

Click here for a full Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Dr. Swinnen.