Prof Janet Dwyer

Biography

Janet directs and undertakes applied research related to agriculture, the environment and rural development. Her research expertise centres on European and UK rural development policy and practice, with particular interest in integrated approaches, environmental sustainability and institutional adaptation.

She is well-known in policymaking circles in the UK and EU, has skills in facilitation and consensus-building, and is a regular speaker at international conferences. Her work has influenced the development and design of agri-environmental and rural policies in England, Wales, Ireland and Malta, and at the European level within the European Commission’s DGs for Agriculture and rural development, Environment, and Climate.

She sits on a variety of NGO and government-sponsored policy advisory groups in England including Green Alliance, the RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission and Defra’s Rural Academic Panel, and is currently chairing Defra’s Nutrient Management Expert Group. Janet is a Director of Rural England CIC, and a Trustee of the Organic Research Centre and the Countryside and Community Foundation.

Qualifications

• PhD Agricultural Economics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1990
• MA Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1985.

Membership of professional bodies

• Founder and steering group member of the Uplands Alliance
• President-elect of UK Agricultural Economics Society from April 2019
• Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies
• Member of the Academie d’Agriculture, Editorial Board of Environmental Science and Policy and Bio-based and Applied Economics