Daniel Clay Email & Phone Number

BIO-SKETCH: Dr. Dan Clay is Professor and Director of Global Programs in Sustainable Agri-food Systems and Senior Associate to the Dean at Michigan State University. His work has focused on issues of food and agricultural value chain development (high value exports), food safety/SPS, food security, food aid impacts, household livelihood strategies, relief-development linkages, conservation investments, agricultural productivity, and household survey methodologies. These wide-ranging programmatic interests and experiences have resulted in an extensive list of professional publications and high impact development programs that have been featured in TIME Magazine, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN/Money, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press and many other newspapers, magazines and online journals. Dr. Clay is the originator and six-year Director (2000-2006) of the Partnership to Enhance Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL) project. PEARL has demonstrated phenomenal success at assisting rural communities to improve livelihoods through coffee and horticulture export value chain development—by connecting farmers to markets and meeting quality and safety standards at every step in the value chain. Other countries in which Dr. Clay has maintained applied research, training, and outreach activities include: Burundi, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia. Over the past ten years Dr. Clay has regularly served as an advisor to the World Bank, WTO and USAID as an expert in food security, value chain development, science and technology, and agricultural policy.

Listed skills include Agriculture, Grant Writing, Higher Education, Sustainability, and 3 others.

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  Michigan State University

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