Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
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Wallace Tyner is a professor and former department head in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His research interests cover the realms of energy, agriculture, and natural resource policy analysis and structural and sectoral adjustment in developing economies. In these areas, Dr. Tyner has published over 200 professional papers, including three books and numerous refereed papers, and he teaches a graduate-level course on benefit-cost analysis that incorporates risk into the economic and financial analysis of investment projects. His current research focuses on renewable energy policy issues, while his past work in energy economics has encompassed oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, biomass, ethanol from agricultural sources, and solar energy. Dr. Tyner has extensive professional experience in numerous developing countries, including three years in Morocco as Senior Agricultural Economist and Deputy Team Leader for a USAID project on planning, economics, and statistics for agriculture. He also spent two years in India as a Peace Corps volunteer. In June 2007, Senator Richard Lugar named Dr. Tyner an “Energy Patriot” for his work on energy policy analysis. Dr. Tyner received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland.
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