Gershon Feder, The World Bank

Senior Research Manager for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. At the Bank since 1975, Mr. Feder has served in the past in a number of assignments, including as Chief of the Agricultural Policies Division in the Bank?s Agriculture and Natural Resources Department. His research focuses on various aspects of land tenure and land markets in developing countries and on the impact of agricultural extension.

Other research areas to which Mr. Feder has contributed include rural finance, agricultural technology diffusion, and sovereign debt servicing capacity. Mr. Feder has a B.A. in Economics and Development from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has won twice the American Agricultural Economics Association's (AAEA) Award for Quality of Research, as well as their 2003 and 2005 Awards for Publication of Enduring Quality. In 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the AAEA. He also won the World Bank's Award for Excellence in 1997. He is presently a member or the Bank's Rural Sector Board and the World Bank's Publications Committee. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the World Bank Research Observer.