Kym ANDERSON is the lead economist in the International Trade Unit of The World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington, DC. Before joining The World Bank he held academic appointments at the Australian National University and since then at the University of Adelaide. Previously, he has been a Ford Foundation visiting fellow in Seoul, director of the Agricultural Trade Policy Unit at Australia's Department of Trade, a visiting fellow at Stockholm's Institute for International Economic Studies, and counselor and deputy to the director of research at the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva. He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the American Agricultural Economics Association, as well as a research fellow of Europe's Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. He is the first economist to have been a WTO dispute settlement panelist. His current research interests include agricultural and other trade policy reforms, particularly the implications for poverty reduction; the global economics and political economy of GMOs; and the functioning of the WTO. He obtained his first degrees from the universities of New England and Adelaide in Australia, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and Stanford University, respectively.