Dr.Calum G Turvey

Calum Turvey joined the Cornell faculty in 2005 as the W.I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance. Prior to this appointment he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics and director of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University (2002-2005) and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, the University of Guelph in Canada.

Professor Turvey has published over 100 articles in agricultural finance, risk management and related topics. While maintaining and extensive research effort on Western finance and risk issues, recent years has seen an increased focus on rural credit issues in developing economies with activities in China, India, Kenya, and the Dominican Republic. Of particular interest is research on informal credit relationships between friends and relatives in China and India, examining credit demand and credit demand elasticities, and evaluating the use of specialized insurance products based on weather risk and other forms of risk contingent credit and micro credit.

In addition to these academic interests professor Turvey is the editor of Agricultural Finance Review, past editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, sits on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness: An International Journal; Sits on the research board of the Food Bank for New York City; and is an associate faculty member of the University of Melbourne in Australia. He holds a BSc (agr) University of Guelph (1983); MSc University of Guelph (1985) and PhD Purdue University (1988).

Calum Turvey 博士于1983 和1985 年在奎尔夫大学分获学士、硕士学位，1988 年在普 渡大学获博士学位。博士毕业后在加拿大奎尔夫大学任教，2002-2005 年受聘于美国罗吉斯 大学，任农业食物资源学院院长、罗格斯大学食物政策研究所主任等职；2005 年起加入康 奈尔大学，任农业金融教授（W.I. Myers Professor）。

Turvey 教授已经在农业金融和风险管理等领域发表论文100 多篇。近年来，在保持和 拓展对西方国家农村金融和农业风险问题研究的基础上，Turvey 教授的研究日益集中在发 展中国家（如中国、印度、肯尼亚和多米尼亚）的农村信用问题，研究重点是：中国和印度 农村的非常规信贷关系（如朋友亲戚之间的借贷），信贷需求及需求弹性的测算，气候指数 保险、小额信贷和其它风险管理工具使用效果的评估。

Turvey 教授的主要社会兼职有：农业金融评论（Agricultural Finance Review）杂志主编； 加拿大农业经济前主编；加拿大农业经济和农业企业杂志编委；纽约市食物银行研究组成员； 澳大利亚墨尔本大学兼职教授。