Annual Meeting 2004
The 40th Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

"Progress in International Agriculture and Rural Development"
Speakers and Panelists

Steven Jaffee
Senior Economist, International Trade Department
World Bank

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Steven Jaffee has worked at the World Bank since 1991, in its Agriculture and Rural Development Department (1991-95), East and Southern Africa Agriculture Division (1995-1998), Africa Private Sector Division (1999-2001), and International Trade Department (2002-present). His research and operational work at the Bank has related to several areas, including agricultural product and input marketing,

 agribusiness development, non-traditional export promotion, rural finance, and agricultural services reform. In 1999-2000 he was seconded to Novartis Agribusiness where he worked on food safety and biotechnology regulatory issues. He is currently coordinating a global study dealing with the challenges, strategies, and costs of compliance for developing countries in relation to international sanitary and phytosanitary standards. Before joining the Bank he did various research consultancies and was employed at USAID. He holds a D.Phil. in agricultural economics from Oxford University and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.