Professor of business economics at the Department of People & Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), former Van Vliet Chair Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2018). Research and teaching on domestic and international sustainable agri-food industries and value chains, cooperatives, agricultural policy, international trade, economic development, industrial organisation, institutional economics and econometrics, in Europe, Asia, Africa and N. America, and published in international peer reviewed journals and books.