Jill McCluskey, a professor in the School of Economics Sciences at Washington State University, has been elected to a three-year term as president of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. The AAEA is a national organization working to increase awareness and knowledge of the economics of agriculture, rural communities, and natural resources. She will begin her term as president on July 27.
Dr. McCluskey joined the faculty at Washington State University in 1998. She was promoted to full professor in 2007. Professor McCluskey is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned a master’s degree at Georgetown University. She holds a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor McCluskey is the associate editor of the European Review of Agricultural Economics and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Economics.