College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Dr. H. Holly Wang joined the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University as a professor in 2024. She held positions of an Assistant and later Associate Professor at the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, and then Associate and Full Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University previously. She also served as a guest, adjunct, or external professor in several universities in Canada, China, Finland, Germany, and the US. Dr. Wang received her BS degree from Tsinghua University, China, and both of her MA degree in Economics and Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.  She became a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) in 2023.

Dr. Wang’s research covers topics like agricultural policies, risks and finances, the interaction among agricultural production, food consumption and the environment, consumer preferences, E-Commerce, and international markets. Over the past three decades, Dr. Wang has been at the forefront of applying cutting-edge quantitative methods to empirical issues, including time series and spatial econometrics, experimental methods, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She has authored over 140 articles published in academic journals. She has won AAEA Quality of Communication awards twice in recent years.

Dr. Wang is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Food Policy and a co-Editor of China Agricultural Economic Review. Dr. Wang also held leadership positions within professional organizations, including the President of the Chinese Economists Society, an Executive Board Director of AAEA, the founding Chair of the AAEA China Section, and the Chair of organizing committee of several international conferences.