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Ramu Govindasamy
Professor and Department Chair
848-932-9192
govind@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Major Areas of Expertise: Horticultural Produce Industry and African Indigenous vegetables in Zambia & Kenya; Post-harvest technology practice and adoption in Zambia; Partnership in Food Industry Development in South Africa, Zambia, Senegal, Ghana & Rwanda; An Economic Evaluation of African Natural Products Industry; Supply Chain Analysis in the Lentil Industry in Sri Lanka; Returns to Investment on the Jersey Fresh State Sponsored Promotion Program; Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing & Agritourism Developments During the Last Decade; Consumer Willingness to pay for Genetically Modified Foods; Demand for Organic, IPM and Ethnic Produce in the Northeastern U.S.
Dr. Govindasamy is serves as the Chair of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University. He has developed an effective, nationally and internationally recognized program of research and scholarship leading to over 100 refereed publications, 150 professional presentations, plenary and invited talks and 45 external research grants. Because of his accomplishments, Dr. Govindasamy was elected in 2004 as the Chair of S1019, National Research Committee that focuses on the issues relating to fruit and vegetable marketing in the U.S. He also served as the editorial board member for the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review and The Journal of Food Distribution Research Society. Dr. Govindasamy was awarded the Presidential Emerging Leadership Award by the Food Distribution Society in October of 2004 and was elected to serve as the president-elect of the association in 2016. In the past ten years, Dr. Govindasamy’s research program has been supported by external grants and contracts of over $11 million from over 10 sources.
Paul D. Gottlieb
Associate Professor
848-932-9122
gottlieb@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Land use and economic development
Sanjib Bhuyan
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
848-932-9123
bhuyan@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Economics of food markets and marketing systems. This includes but is not limited to the analysis of the industrial organization of the food systems, marketing of food and agricultural products, including cooperatives and producer behavior, and analysis of consumer behavior.
Personal Website: sites.rutgers.edu/bhuyan
Yanhong Jin
Professor
848-932-9139
jinyh@sebs.rutgers.eduCook Office BuildingAreas of Interest: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Food Safety, Marketing, Biosecurity, Environmental and Resource Economics.Personal Website:
Carl Pray
Distinguished Professor
848-932-9121
pray@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Science and technology policy with specific interests in biotechnology applied to agriculture, food and biofuels; Food and agricultural policy; Economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries.
Brian Schilling
Associate Professor, Director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension and
Senior Associate Director of the NJ Agricultural Experiment Station
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Farm viability and agricultural economic development at the urban-rural fringe; farmland preservation; agritourism; and food system security.
Edmund M. Tavernier
Professor
848-932-9132
etaverni@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Focuses on agricultural policy issues particularly trade policy and issues that inform land use policy at the rural/urban fringe.
Isaac Vellangany
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Undergraduate Program Director of Environmental & Business Economic
848-932-9131
isaacv@sebs.rutgers.edu
Cook Office Building
Areas of Interest: Focuses on agricultural policy issues particularly trade policy and issues that inform land use policy at the rural/urban fringe.
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Current Visiting Scholars and Professors
- Daiyue Li
Part Time Lecturers
- Basanta Chaudhuri
- Kenneth Genco
- Serpil Guran
- John Italia
- Dr. Sonal Pandey
Faculty Emeriti
Robin G. Brumfield
Professor Emeritus
Specialist in Farm Management
Dr. Robin G. Brumfield is Professor Emeritus from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, and has been the Farm Management Extension Specialist at Rutgers since 1988. She is internationally known for her work in horticultural economics. Her Greenhouse Cost Accounting Program is the standard in the greenhouse industry. She wrote the marketing and business management chapters for the best-selling textbook, Greenhouse Operations and Management, by Dr. Paul V. Nelson. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Horticulture with a minor in Economics and Business from North Carolina State University. Dr. Brumfield was named a Fellow of ASHS in 2012; this is the highest honor the society bestows. Dr. Robin Brumfield has been working with the New Jersey Annie’s Project Team as state co-leader since 2011. She collaborated with the team to conduct focus groups to adapt this program from the mid-west to conditions in an urban state. She has arranged the workshops so that the women complete a business plan as part of the workshop.
Barbara O’Neill
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Specialist in Financial Resource Management
Areas of Interest: Financial planning, health finance, and impact evaluation of financial education programs.
Dr. Barbara O’Neill holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) and is Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s Specialist in Financial Resource Management.Employed by Rutgers since 1978, she has provided national leadership for the Cooperative Extension programs Investing For Your Future and Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ for over a decade. She is also a member and 2016 Chair of the eXtension Financial Security for All Community of Practice, a multi-state team of Cooperative Extension family economics professionals. Part of her work time is bought out to provide personal finance training for military family service professionals (for the eXtension Military Families Learning Network) and for New Jersey financial educators as part of a state Department of Education contract.