Timothy Richards

Timothy J. Richards (Tim) is the Marvin and June Morrison Endowed Chair of Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He holds an undergraduate business degree from the University of British Columbia, where he majored in Economics and Finance, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Stanford University. He has published over 140 articles in top economics, supply chain management, marketing, and agricultural economics journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Manufacturing and Services Operations Management, Production Operations Management, the Journal of Retailing, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and several others. He has won sixteen Article of the Year awards, was co-editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and is currently co-editor of the European Review of Agricultural Economics. His research focuses on food supply chains, empirical industrial organization, quantitative marketing, data analytics, retailing strategy, agricultural labor, and food policy. He teaches Managerial Economics, Strategic Pricing for Retailers, and Risk Management and Insurance. He also does extensive consulting work in the food retailing and manufacturing industries for clients that include Walmart, Kroger, SuperValu, Hormel, Sara Lee, JBS Swift, Foster Farms, and a number of others.