CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Abt Associates has announced the appointment of Dr. Gary Ender as Abt Associates Fellow. Dr. Ender is an agricultural economist and Principle Associate in the company's International Economic Growth Division.
Dr. Ender has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of agricultural policy reform, monitoring and evaluation, understanding the impact of macroeconomic and agricultural policies on agribusiness development, and food security. He is currently managing the development and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system for USAID's projects in support of the Initiative to End Hunger in Africa. Prior to this, for six years he was Chief of Party of the Monitoring, Verification, and Evaluation Unit of the Agricultural Policy Reform Program in Egypt, USAID's largest activity of this type. He was also a resident advisor on USAID projects in Pakistan and the Philippines.
In 2006-07, he directed a technical team at Abt Associates that developed a random assignment evaluation design for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Before joining Abt Associates in 1989, Dr. Ender worked as an agricultural economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, where he analyzed producer and consumer subsidies as part of the GATT/WTO negotiations.
"We are delighted to have Gary join the Abt Associates Fellows," said Abt Associates President and CEO, Kathleen Flanagan. "His deep understanding of agriculture and its impact on economic development around the world, as well as his knowledge of policy reform and analysis, agribusiness and international trade, put him in a position to have broad impact on the quality of our international project work."
Dr. Ender received an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in agricultural economics and a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in economics.
The Abt Associates Fellows is a group of senior Abt Associates technical experts who focus on enhancing the quality of the company's research and technical assistance work. Selected for their substantial intellectual contributions to Abt Associates projects and demonstrated commitment to quality, the Fellows are instrumental in building the skills and expertise of other Abt Associates researchers and consultants.
Abt Associates, an employee-owned company, applies scientific research, technical assistance, survey, and consulting expertise to a wide range of social, economic and health policy issues; international development; clinical trials and registries; and complex business problems. Founded in 1965, the company provides services to U.S. federal, state and local governments; universities and foundations; media; and major corporations. In fiscal year 2009, the company had revenue of $264 million. Its staff of over 1,300 is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Bethesda, Maryland; Durham, North Carolina; Lexington, Massachusetts (Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions, Inc.); New York, New York (Abt SRBI); and in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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