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Channing Arndt

Created: 9/20/2000
Updated: 8/27/2026
Visits: 16,199 		Dr. Channing Arndt
Director and Thompson Chair In International Agricultural Economics

Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University
403 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
KRAN #686
West Lafayette, IN 47906-2056
United States

http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu
carndt@purdue.edu
+1-765-494-7678 (ph)



Biography
Channing Arndt directs the Global Trade Analysis Project, which is housed at Purdue University. GTAP supports a network of more than 32,000 individuals engaged in quantitative analysis of 21st century challenges. A consortium of 30 leading national, international, and private institutions provides baseline financial support and strategic advice. GTAP aims to advance high-quality quantitative analysis of global issues and facilitate deliberate decision-making. To this end, GTAP (i) lowers barriers to the conduct of high-quality quantitative analysis of global issues through the provision of data, models/tools, and training; (ii) conducts research on pressing issues with global ramifications; and (iii) serves as a platform for discussion and dissemination of novel approaches and ideas. Prior to directing GTAP, he directed the Transformation Strategies Department at IFPRI/CGIAR overseeing a research budget of about $65 million and about 350 staff. Arndt has more than 30 years of experience in analytics for economic policy, with emphasis on large-scale global trends and their implications for country-level strategy and policy. He has published more than 100 articles in leading academic journals. His books include Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries, and The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions, all published by Oxford University Press. His program of research has focused on growth, trade, economic development, poverty alleviation, market integration, nutrition, gender and discrimination, health-related shocks such as Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS, technological change, aid effectiveness, energy, bioenergy, climate variability, and climate change.


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