Colin Carter is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis and Director of the University of California’s Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Colin was born and raised on a farm in Alberta, Canada. After completing a B.A. and M.Sc. at the University of Alberta, he obtained a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. Colin has published widely in the areas of international trade, agricultural policy, futures and commodity markets, the economics of China's agriculture, and the economics of biotechnology adoption in agriculture. He has received a number of professional awards for Teaching, Quality of Research, Quality of Communication, and for Distinguished Policy Contribution. From 2004 through 2008, Colin was an Editor of the Review of Agricultural Economics. He also served as Department Chair at UC Davis from 1999 through 2001. He has also served as a consultant to various groups including the U.S. Congress, OECD, World Bank, Agriculture Canada, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the International Development Research Center. Colin Carter was named Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2000 in recognition of his many contributions to the field of agricultural economics.