College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Dr. H. Holly Wang joined the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University as a professor in 2024. She held positions of an Assistant and later Associate Professor at the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University from 1997 to 2007, then Associate and Full Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University from 2007 to 2024. She has also served as a guest, adjunct, or external professor in several universities in Canada, China, Finland, Germany, and the US. Dr. Wang received her BS degree from Tsinghua University, China, and both of her MA degree in Economics and Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.  

Dr. Wang’s research covers topics like agricultural policies, risks and finances, the interaction among agricultural production, food consumption and the environment, consumer preferences, E-Commerce, and international markets. Over the past three decades, Dr. Wang has been at the forefront of applying cutting-edge quantitative methods to empirical issues, including time series and spatial econometrics, experimental methods, and machine learning. She has authored over 130 articles published in academic journals. She has won AAEA Quality of Communication awards twice in recent years. She is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Dr. Wang is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Food Policy and a co-Editor of China Agricultural Economic Review. Dr. Wang also held leadership positions within professional organizations, including the President of the Chinese Economists Society, an Executive Board Director of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, the founding Chair of the AAEA China Section, and the Chair of several international conferences.