Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Rozelle received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley; and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Before arriving at Stanford, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California, Davis and an assistant professor in the Food Research Institute and Department of Economics at Stanford University. Currently, he is a member of the American Economics Association, the American Agricultural Economics Association, the International Association for Agricultural Economists, the Asian Studies Association, and the Association of Comparative Economics. He also serves on the editorial board of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Agricultural Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, China Journal, and the China Economic Review.
Dr. Rozelle’s research focuses almost exclusively on China. In the past several years, Dr. Rozelle’s papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. He is fluent in Chinese and has established a research program in which he has close working ties with several Chinese collaborators and policymakers. He is the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; a co-director of the Agricultural Issues Center (University of California); and a member of Stanford’s new Food, Security, and the Environment Program.
He was the 2000 Chancellor Fellow at the University of California.
Scott Rozelle presented “Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrels Politics, Chinese Style” at the 2009 CESI. It was co-authored by Jikun Huang, Renfu Luo, and Linxiu Zhang.