C. Leigh Anderson
Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 224
cla@u.washington.edu
206.543.0365
Areas of Specialization:
International Development; Markets and Individual Decision Making
C. Leigh Anderson joined the Evans School faculty in 1997. Her primary research interest is in how individuals living in poverty make financial, environmental, health, and other livelihood decisions, especially when outcomes are highly risky or spread over time. Her current research focuses on rural poverty and agriculture, and market and policy institutions.
Anderson also serves as the director of the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development, and Global Citizenship. She teaches courses in economics, statistics, and international development.
Anderson previously taught for eight years at the School of Public Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Anderson has also taught or been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, Renmin University of China in Beijing, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
Anderson is a recipient of the University of Washington’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the UW’s Department of Economics Henry T. Buechel Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Economics from the University of Washington, and a BA in economics from the University of Calgary.
Curriculum Vitae (160 KB PDF)
Publications & Links
- Seed Trade in Rural Markets: Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development (editor with Leslie Lipper and Timothy J. Dalton) provides case studies from Bolivia, India, Kenya, Mali, and Mexico on agricultural seed and product markets that describe important market characteristics expected to affect farmers’ access to seeds and varieties.
- Evans School Policy Analysis and Research group (EPAR) provides on-going research support to the Policy and Statistics group and others within the Agricultural Development team of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Global Women’s Philanthropy is a research project led by the Washington Women’s Foundation's founder, Colleen Willoughby, and the Marc Lindenberg Center to promote women as philanthropists.
- Improving Market Participation for the Poor (IMPP) is a collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to conduct research on the effectiveness of programs designed to increase market opportunities and connections for the rural poor in central Vietnam.
- Curriculum, Research, and Outreach in Microfinance: A joint microfinance project sponsored by the US State Department. Participants: Baikal Institute of Business and International Management (BIBIM ISU), Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Siberian Academy of Public Administration (SAPA).
- Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public Policy (editor with Janet Looney) draws on writers from many disciplines to provoke a broad-based discussion on the meaning of, measurement of, and necessary conditions for, progress.