Stanley Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Nevada – Reno
Stanley R. Johnson is Assistant to the Dean for Special Projects, College of
Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources, University of Nevada, Reno,
and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University.
He is also Board Chair and CEO of the National Center for Food and Agricultural
Policy, a Washington DC based policy think tank, which has as research clients
USDA, UN FAO, DOE, the US Air Force, Monsanto, University of Illinois
Champaign/Urbana, and others.
He retired from Iowa State University (ISU) in January 2006, as Vice Provost for Extension and Charles F.
Curtiss Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics. Johnson has an extensive publication record
that includes 12 books and over 300 articles in refereed journals as well as numerous book chapters and
non-refereed articles. He has as well served in internationally as a project coordinator and consultant in
countries including most recently Belarus, Bangladesh, Egypt, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Moldova, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Russia, Ukraine, Tunisia, England, France, The Netherlands,
Sierra Leone and Switzerland.
As Vice Provost and currently, Johnson has been highly active in leadership positions with the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). These have included Policy
Board of Directors/Board on Agriculture Assembly (PBD/BAA), Chair of the Task Force negotiating
extended cooperation with the Department of Energy (DOE), Chair of the Task Force on 4-H Funding and
past Chair of the NASULGC Legislative Committee and the Farm Bill Task Force for NASULGC.
Before serving as Vice Provost for Extension, Stanley Johnson was the Director of the Center for
Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at ISU. CARD is the primer research center at Iowa State
University and focuses on agricultural, food and nutrition, rural development and environmental policy.
Prior to his appointment at ISU as Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in 1985,
Stanley Johnson held faculty positions in Economics and/or Agricultural Economics at the University of
Missouri-Columbia, the University of California-Berkeley, Purdue University, the University of Georgia,
the University of California-Davis, and the University of Connecticut.
Johnson is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is as well a member of the
Academy of Sciences in China and Hungary, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the former USSR,
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other states of the former Soviet Union. Finally, he is the recipient of the
Charles A. Black Award of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology of the USA.