Bob Baulch is currently Professor of Economics in the Business School, RMIT University Vietnam. He is as an agricultural and development economist and has research and policy advisory experience in 24 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, including long-term assignments in Malawi, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam. He was educated at the universities of Oxford (undergrad), Sussex (masters) and Stanford (doctorate) and has worked for the Asian Development Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute, Natural Resources, Institute, University of Sussex (UK), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and World Bank, as well as RMIT University. He has also been a manager for a community interest company and run his own successful economic consultancy company. He is a co-director of the RMIT Centre for International Development (https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/centre-for-international-development).


Awards & recognition
Merit Awards, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2019-21
Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Fall semester, 2015
Two DFID-ESRC Development Research Awards, 2006 and 2008
Award for Professional Excellence, World Bank 2000;
Outstanding Journal Article, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1997
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1994
Prize Fellowship, Stanford University, 1990-93
Fellow, Overseas Development Institute,1985-1987
Postgraduate Studentship, UK Economic and Social Research Council, 1984-85