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Dr. Jeff Dorsey is an agricultural economist with over 25 years of experience designing and implementing strategies and programs for policy change and poverty alleviation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout his career, he has focused on developing programs for income- and employment-generating activities in developing countries via credit, small business creation and growth, and the opening up of new opportunities in agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries and marketing their products. His work has consistently placed him in advisory and management roles linked with poverty alleviation, food security, and rural development. Over his career, he has forged excellent working and personal relationships with senior public policymakers and key actors in the private sector in more than 45 countries. Dr. Dorsey has applied his experience and knowledge to the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies for governments around the world, often working with international agencies. Dr. Dorsey has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. from Hamilton College.

Founded in 1975, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization, was established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America. In 1982, COHA’s board of trustees voted to expand its mandate to include monitoring Canadian/Latin American relations. Since its inception, COHA has been one of the most active and broadest-based U.S. private bodies dealing with the entire spectrum of political, economic and diplomatic issues, as well as responding to the economic and political challenges confronting the nations of this hemisphere. From its beginnings, COHA’s board consisted of the leadership of some of this country’s most important trade unions, professional organizations and religious groups, as well as distinguished civic and academic figures, who joined together to advance their common belief in support of representative government and pluralistic institutions throughout the hemisphere.

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