Bill Vorley
Bill Vorley is a Principal Researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London. His research interests are market structure and governance, the position of small and family scale producers, the role of business in sustainable development, and the means to decouple food production and trade from the degradation of livelihoods and environment. He was coordinator of the international 'Regoverning Markets' programme, which analysed the position of small scale producers in modern/restructured agrifood markets. Prior to joining IIED in 1999, Bill worked at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, the Leopold Centre for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and spent many years in agribusiness after post-doctoral field research in Malaysia. He has a PhD from the University of Southampton, UK.
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