Jose M. Sumpsi is an agricultural economist (1970) and obtained a PhD onin agricultural economics (1974) from the for Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
Since 1982, he is a full professor at UPM teaching in agricultural, rural development and natural resources economics and policies. In 1983-86, he was President of Land Reform Institute in Andalucia (Spain). He has a long professional experience and academic career on agricultural economics and policies and performed many high-level advisory tasks and responsibilities in managing and policy making in relevant international institutions as the European Commission (Brussels 1995-1997), the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington 2003-2006) and the FAO as Assistant Director General (Rome 2007-2010).
Since 2016 up to 2019 he was Head of the Agricultural and Environmental Risk Management Research Centre of UPM.
He has published 12 books, 33 chapters of books and 70 papers in national and international economic journals. Among his scientific and policymaking contributions, it can be highlighted the following: The research on the rational of the economic behavior (farmer utility function) of large farmers in Spain (1995); the greening of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which had an enormous influence in the later CAP reforms (1997); the analysis of farmer’s response to water pricing policies and its implications for water policy (2002); the role of access to land on rural poverty alleviation in developing countries (2007); the analysis of the causes of soaring food prices in 2008 and leading the FAO’s world program to face the global food crisis (ISFP) and the European Union Food Facility 2008-2010; and the understanding and coping with food markets volatility towards sustainable food systems (2015).
Member of the HLPE-FSN Steering Committee 2017-2019, 2022-2024.
