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Dr. Jeffrey Williams

Dr. Jeffrey Williams, 51, of Palo Alto and Davis, was appointed to the Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee on August 28, 2002 and has focused his career on economics for more than 20 years. Dr. Williams was an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Brandeis University from 1981 to 1987, and was a visiting economist at the Banca d'Italia in 1986. He worked for the Food Research Institute of Stanford University from 1987 to 1998 as an associate and full professor, and later as Director. In 1992, Dr. Williams was awarded a Quality of Research Discovery Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association for a book he authored entitled Storage and Commodity Markets. Since 1997, he has served as the Daniel Barton DeLoach Professor in the Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Williams earned his Doctor of Philosophy and Masters of Arts degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College.