Handy Williamson

Background

About Handy Williamson

Dr. Handy Williamson, Jr. is the RETIRED Vice Provost for International Programs at the University of Missouri (MU) in Columbia, Missouri and holds tenure as a professor on the agricultural economics faculty at MU. He oversees MU’s international activities on campus, in the U.S. and around the world. Dr. Williamson is the President of the Association of International Agricultural & Rural Development (AIARD). He serves on boards of the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement, the Association of International Education Administrators, Higher Education for Development and the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation at Peking University. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Public Land Grant University’s (A.P.L.U.) Commission on International Programs and is a longstanding member of the Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP) external advisory board. Dr. Williamson has served as a Department Head and faculty member of agricultural economics and rural sociology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was a deputy director of science and technology/research and university relations (S&T/RUR) with the Agency for International Development in Washington, DC. Dr. Williamson has served on the White House Committee on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Over the years, he has provided testimonies pertaining to U.S. universities before sub-committees of the U.S. House and Senate. He has been an administrator and faculty member at Tennessee State University at Nashville; and Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He continues to serve on university program study teams and as a consultant on projects and review teams in Africa, the Caribbean, the Far East, Europe and the United States. He has travelled and consulted extensively around the world. Recently, his travels have been throughout China, South Korea, India, and Thailand.