Mario Miranda is Professor of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics at The Ohio State University and Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His research has focused on the modeling of stochastic dynamical systems in economics with application to international economic development, agricultural finance and insurance, agricultural and environmental policy, food security, international trade, commodity pricing and industrial organization. His research has produced one book, which has been adopted for courses offered by seven of the top ten ranked doctoral programs in Economics in the world and over 80 peer-reviewed articles, two of which are among the three most frequently cited articles on “agricultural insurance”. He has advised thirty doctoral students to completion, including two winners and two honorable mention recipients of the Applied and Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Professor Miranda served seven years as Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Computational Economics. He has also served as a consultant to the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Chicago Board of Trade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the International Water Management Institute, and numerous private corporations. He has made over 170 presentations to professional and academic audiences and has worked on major research projects or taught courses in Bolivia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa and Tanzania.