Edward Martey

Edward Martey (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6933-3685) is an Agricultural and Applied economist at the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute with 12 years of professional experience. He is a visiting Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a 2022 Visiting Fellow, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Structural Transformation of African and Asian Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAAARS+) program. He received his BSc (Agricultural Economics), MPhil (Agricultural Economics), and PhD (Agricultural and Applied Economics) degrees from the University of Ghana and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. He is currently the Head of the Social Science and Biometry Section of CSIR-SARI. His research, development, agricultural economics, and operational work cover a range of policy-relevant questions related to poverty, development, and commercialization in Africa. Specifically, his recent research focuses on impact assessment of agricultural technologies, energy, agricultural and rural development, time poverty, and economic valuation using choice experiments.