About “Fay Rola-Rubzen”

Dr Fay Rola-Rubzen is an agricultural economist/ development economist with extensive experience in farming systems research; analysis of farmer behaviour under risk and uncertainty; gender, poverty and food security; agribusiness and supply chain analysis; and poverty and social analysis. She joined the Agricultural and Resource Economics group, School of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2018. Prior to joining UWA, she was the Deputy Dean of Research and Development at Curtin Business School, Curtin University.Fay has led and managed several research and development projects with multi-disciplinary teams both in Australia and internationally (Asia and Africa) and has been consultant to various organisations including the UN-FAO, UN-ESCAP, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Currently, Fay is the Project leader of a multi-country ACIAR-funded project on . She is also a co-investigator (socio-economist and gender specialist) in the Project in South Asia, where she leads the gender mainstreaming work and the analysis of farmer behaviour and technology adoption.