Scholar, Entrepreneur, and Editorial Innovator

Abstract

As an economist, academic leader, patriot, innovator, and entrepreneur, Gordon Rausser has rooted his legacy into the global academic, governmental and private sector landscape. From his humble beginnings on a small family farm in California, Gordon served as chief and senior economist at two U.S. government agencies, designed a Canadian agricultural policy model, organized a global conference in Egypt dedicated to water resources, and was instrumental in the integration of agricultural in the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations. As the former dean of the College of Natural Resources, his avant-garde public-private research development agreements not only cemented the department as first in the nation but also laid the foundation for other universities throughout the U.S. to establish private-public R&D partnerships based on his template. Gordon founded a political-economic thinktank that nurtured as many as eight Nobel Prize winners as well as a major economic, financial, and statistical consulting firm that was the first to successfully orchestrate an IPO.

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• In 2021, Rausser was appointed the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship.

• In 2020, Rausser was awarded the Berkeley Fellowship, awarded to distinguished faculty and friends of UC Berkeley who have led exemplary careers at the top of their professions.

• In 2020, Rausser was selected as a Builder of Berkeley to honor his philanthropy donation to U.C Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources.

• In 2020, U.C. Berkeley awarded Rausser with the U.C. Berkeley Citation and the Berkeley Fellowship, awarded to “distinguished individuals or organizations, academic or nonacademic, whose contributions to UC Berkeley go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields.”

• In 2020, the Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association dedicates their Keynote Address to Gordon Rausser for his “lifetime research discoveries, publications of enduring quality, selected best referred articles, his phenomenal editorial work for four different journals, including the AJAE, and exceptional intellectual leadership of our profession.”

• In 2019, a Festschrift was held in honor of Rausser. This four-day symposia composed of some of the world’s leading economists on those most pressing topics facing society highlighted Rausser’s pioneering research and policy.

• In 2018, Rausser was awarded the “Best Article Award” from the American Journal of Agricultural Economics for his article, “Commodity Storage and the Market Effects of Biofuel Policies.”

• In 2017, Rausser was awarded the “Quality of Communication Award Honorable Mention” from the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association for his book, “Structuring Public-Private Research Partnerships for Success: Empowering University Partnerships.”

• In 2015, Rausser was awarded UC Davis’ “Outstanding Ph.D. Alumni Award Covering the First Fifty Years of the Program.”

• In 2014, Rausser was awarded the “Best Private Enforcement Academic Article” from the American Antitrust Institute.

• In 2014, Rausser was awarded the “European Quality of Policy Contribution Award” from the European Association of Agricultural Economists.

• In 2014, Rausser was selected as an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford University.

• From 2013–2014, Rausser was a visiting professor at Oxford University, Department of Economics.

• In 2012, Rausser was selected as a member for the International Scientific Council, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

• In 2012, Rausser was awarded the “National Excellence in Multistate Research Award” from the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (SAAESD).

• In 2012, Rausser was awarded the “Distinguished Scholar Award” from the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• In 2010, Rausser was awarded the Career Achievement Award from UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources.

• In 2001, Rausser was awarded the “Quality of Research Discovery Award” from the AAEA.

• In 2000, Rausser was awarded the “Secretary of Agricultural Award” and the “Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Awards” from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for “outstanding accomplishments in agricultural public policy research and formulation.”

• In 2004, Rausser was awarded the “Outstanding Publishing Research Award” from the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• In 1993, Rausser was selected as a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also selected as the chair of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences in 2001.

• In 1993, Rausser was awarded the “Publication of Enduring Quality Award” from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. This award is given for “contributions to environmental economics, statistical decision theory, and natural resource analysis.”

• In 1993, Rausser was awarded the “Distinguished Policy Contribution Award” from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

• In 1991, Rausser was selected as an American Statistics Association Fellow.

• In 1990, Rausser was awarded the “Superior Unit Citation Award” from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for his leadership.

• In 1990, Rausser selected as an AAEA Fellow.

• In 1989, Rausser served as Chief Economist of the Agency for International Development.

• In 1989, Rausser served as chair of the Intergovernmental Consultative Group on Indonesia, The Hague.

• In 1987, Rausser was selected as Fulbright Scholar in Australia.

• From 1986 to 1987, Rausser served as Senior Economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

• In 1986, Rausser was selected as the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley.

• In 1986, Rausser was awarded the “Best Published Research Award” from the Agricultural and Applied Economics.

• From 1983 to 1986, Rausser served as editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

• From 1984 to 1985, Rausser was a resident fellow at Resources for the Future.

• In 1982, Rausser was awarded the “Best Journal Article Award” from the AAEA for his article, “Commodity Price Forecasting with Large-Scale Econometric Models and the Futures Markets.”

• In 1978, Rausser was awarded the “Best Published Research Award” from the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

• In 1976, Rausser was awarded the “Best Published Research Award” from the AAEA.

• In 1972, Rausser was selected as a Ford Foundation Visiting Scholar to Argentina.

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Appendix 3

1.1 Entrepreneurship, Private Company Board of Directors Service

Co-Founder, Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors, TriColor Line 1997–2004.

Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors, Law and Economics Consulting Group, Inc. 1990–2000.

Chairman, Board of Directors, Asthma and Allergy Prevention Co. 2011–.

Chairman and Member, Board of Directors, Certent (formerly Equity Administration Solutions, Inc.) 2007–2020.

Member, Board of Directors, Werqwise (UK) Limited 2020–.

Member, Board of Directors, Logic Source, Inc. 2020–.

Member, Board of Directors, Electric Cloud 2017–2019.

Member, Advisory Board, Rembrandt Venture Partners 2015–.

Member, Board of Directors, Connected Data, Inc. 2014–2015.

Member, Board of Directors, Great Maple Restaurants, LLC (aka Sycamore Restaurants, LLC) 2013–.

Member, Board of Directors, iVu Technologies 2011–2013.

Member, Board of Directors, Pacific Mercantile Bank 2009–2012.

Member, Board of Directors, Integrated Oncology Network 2009–2012.

Member, Board of Directors, Chicago Alternative Investment Partners 2007–2018.

Member, Board of Directors, OnCure Technology (formerly US Cancer Care) 1998–2003.

Member, Board of Directors, and Shareholders’ Representative, Diversified Therapy Corp. 1997–2011.

Member, Board of Directors, U.S. Diagnostic Labs 1994–1999.

Member, Board of Directors, Source for Automation, Inc. 1988–96.

Co-founder and Member, Board of Directors, OPAC., LLC 2017–.

Chairman, Board of Directors, OTC Online 2007–2018.

Co-Founder, Senior Economic Consultant, and Chairman of the Board, OnPoint Analytics 2005–.

Co-Founder and Chairman, Board of Directors, Opt4 Derivatives 2000–2004.

Chairman, Board of Directors, Creston Commodities 1978–1986.

1.2 University Board of Trustees

Co-Founder and President, Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC 1990–1994.

Member, Board of Trustees, University of California Berkeley 1994–2001.

Member, Board of Trustees, Palo Alto University (formerly Pacific Graduate School of Psychology) 1999–2018.