Professor Madan Mohan Dey is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Texas State University. He is an agricultural economist with more than 35 years of post-Ph.D. experience in teaching, research, outreach, and governance in a variety of agricultural and natural resources contexts. He has worked in various academic and research organizations and has conducted research on several sub-sectors of agriculture and natural resources, including crop, livestock, and fisheries. Professor Dey is former regional director for Asia of the World Fish Centre (2004 – 2007), where he provided strategic vision and direction to the Asia regional operation.  Professor Dey has published widely in several fields of agricultural development and policy, including about 110 referred journal articles, several books, and 45 book chapters and reviewed proceedings.  Over the past 30 years, he has led and implemented a number of pioneering, innovative, and inter-disciplinary agricultural projects in the U.S., Asia, and Africa. Professor Dey has been serving on the executive committee  (earlier as the vice-president  and currently as the Director-North America) of International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management.