Jean-Christophe Bureau

Jean-Christophe is Professor of economics at AgroParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology. He is also Director of a research unit in public economics (UMR INRA 210), Research Associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His fields of research include: agricultural policy, international trade and trade negotiations in agriculture. He holds a phD from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has held successive posts at the Forecasting Directorate of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Economics Department of the National Institute of Research in Agronomy (INRA), at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He was in charge of agriculture and the environment at the Council for Economic Analysis of the (former) Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. He has worked as a consultant for for the European Parliament on CAP issues, and for European Commission, the OECD, the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Inter-American Development Bank on trade issues. He has been a visiting researcher at the Economic Service of the USDA, at Iowa State University and at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a French textbook on the CAP “la politique agricole commune”, edition la Decouverte, Paris…. All of this because he is not a good enough to make a living out of flyfishing.

Wyn Grant

Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is an expert on international trade, agriculture and environment policy. His recent books include The Politics of International Trade in the 21st Century: Actors, Issues and Regional Dynamics, co-edited with Dominic Kelly (Palgrave, 2005) and Agriculture in the New Global Economy, co-authored with William Coleman and Tim Josling (Edward Elgar, 2004). Read more. He maintains his own blog on the Common Agricultural Policy which he has agreed to syndicate to CAP Health Check. He can be contacted by email.

Attila Jambor

Attila Jambor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Holding a PhD in economics, his major research interests are agricultural policy and trade performance analysis. He was a junior consultant to the European Parliament on the future of rural development in the CAP post 2013 and to the FAO on the diversity of effects of EU membership on agriculture in the New Member States. He was a visiting member of staff in the University of Newcastle for 8 months. He is currently the leading researcher of a three year long research project analysing the changes and determinants of Central and Eastern European agricultural trade.

Alan Matthews

Alan Matthews is Professor of European Agricultural Policy based in the Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests are agricultural policy analysis, the impact of OECD countries’ agricultural trade policy on developing countries, and the design of WTO trade rules for agriculture. He was a member of the Irish government’s AgriVision 2015 group in 2004 tasked with setting out a strategy for Irish agriculture over the next decade. He has previously worked as a consultant to the OECD, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Commission, and has been a panel member in two WTO Dispute Settlement cases.

Jack Thurston

Based in London, Jack is a co-founder of farmsubsidy.org. He has led the campaign for access to farm subsidy data in the UK and continues to work on building a pan-European network of activists and journalists making similar requests. He was formerly a political adviser to Nick Brown, the UK Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (1998-2001). He writes widely on agriculture, food and trade policy including How to Reform the CAP (2002), and Why Europe Deserves a Better Farm Policy (2005). His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, European Voice, the New Statesman, Prospect Magazine and Tribune. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio Four including Farming Today, PM and Today. Jack holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford University) and a Masters in Public Policy Analysis (University of California, Berkeley). You can read Jack’s blog here, email him via jack@farmsubsidy.org or phone on +44 (0) 7973 155 278.

Valentin Zahrnt

Based in Brussels, Valentin is a Research Associate at The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), an independent and non-profit policy research think tank dedicated to trade policy and other international economic policy issues. Holding a Ph.D. in international economics, his research interest is centered on trade in food: WTO negotiations on agriculture, SPS regulation, and CAP reform. He has recently written papers on Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round and A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. His email address is valentin.zahrnt@ecipe.org.