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Charles Antholt received his Master’s degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University in 1972. He has 33 years of international agricultural, natural resource, and rural development experience. His work assignments included work in Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India with the Peace Corps, the United States Agency for International Development, and The World Bank. His World Bank responsibilities included investments in technological innovation and dissemination in South Asia and restructuring of agricultural economies in Ukraine, Azerbajan, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and Macedonia. This included reforms of price policy, the trade regimes, land ownership as well as institutional reform with respect to the role of government in agricultural and rural economies. Mr. Antholt has been teaching courses at Western since the fall of 1997.
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