William A. Masters

Will Masters is a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics at Tufts University. His projects on food prices created the new Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets metrics adopted since 2020 by the World Bank, FAO and national governments to monitor food access globally, and his open-access textbook on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) has been used by over 15,000 readers around the world. He also leads global collaborations through the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy, and a project on Data Analytics for Food Markets in Africa. Dr. Masters is a recipient of the Borgstrom Prize for Global Food Security from the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, an elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, an Honorary Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, and an Excellence in Nutrition Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition.