President And Chief Economist
  J. Dirck Stryker
Economist
  Mukhtar A. Amin
Senior Economist
  Daniel Plunkett
 

 
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Stryker

President and Chief Economist, J. Dirck Stryker

For over thirty years, Dirck Stryker has been extensively involved in economic analysis in Africa, north and south of the Sahara, as well as in a number of Asian and Latin American countries. Dr. Stryker founded AIRD while still actively engaged on the academic side of the international development field. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and taught at Yale University before joining the faculty of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he served for 26 years.

Dr. Stryker has directed research and consulting activities in the areas of trade policy and capacity building, poverty reduction and employment, monetary and exchange rate policy, tax and fiscal policy, legal and regulatory environment, public utility regulation, agricultural marketing and price policy, agricultural production economics, consumer demand, livestock economics, and natural resource management.

Project highlights:

  • Macroeconomist, World Bank, Diagnostic Trade Integration Study, Liberia. (2007-2008).
  • Macroeconomist, USAID/EGAT, Country Analytic Support II project, with Nathan Associates. (2007-2008).
  • Economist, West Africa Trade Capacity Building cooperative agreement. Assisted the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) in the extension of a common external tariff to all member states. (2002-2007).
  • Team Leader, World Bank. Directed the preparation of Diagnostic Trade Integration Study, Sierra Leone. (2005-2006).
  • Project Leader, Leading a team of eight US, EU, and African consulting firms and research centers to assist ECOWAS in the development of a common West African agricultural policy. (2003-2005).
  • Study Director, Analysis of the Impact of Trade and Economic Policy Reforms on Key Sectors of the Egyptian Economy. Prepared under SEGIR/GBTI for the Ministry of Foreign Trade and USAID. (2004).
  • Economist, SEGIR/GBTI Trade Capacity Building Project. Preparation of multi-sectoral strategy for reinforcing Mali's trade capacity needs, 2002-04. Participated in World Bank-led mission to undertake a Diagnostic Trade Integration Study in Mali. (April 2003).
  • Chief of Party, Trade Regimes and Growth component of the Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) cooperative agreement with USAID's Africa Bureau, which brought applied economic policy analysis and training to trade professionals in seven sub-Saharan African countries (1995-2001). 



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