Dr. Will Masters is Professor of Food Policy and Economics at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of a new open-access textbook on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and leads the Food Prices for Nutrition project that computes the cost and affordability of healthy diets, the IMMANA Fellowships program, and other initiatives. From 2011 to 2014 he served as chair of the Friedman School’s Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, and before coming to Tufts was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, and a visiting faculty member at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90), Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (2000) and Columbia University (2003-04). He is former editor-in-chief of the journal Agricultural Economics, an International Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, and an elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). At Tufts his courses on economics of agriculture, food and nutrition were recognized with student-nominated, University-wide teaching awards in 2019 and 2022.