Fay Rola-rubzen

Biography

Fay is the Deputy Dean - Research and Development for Curtin Business School (CBS). She provides leadership and direction to the Higher Degree by Research Unit at Curtin Business School. Fay also chairs the CBS Graduate Studies Committee and represents CBS at the University Graduate Studies Committee. Fay is an agricultural economist and socio-economist with more than 25 years experience in international development in various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She has vast experience in rural development, gender analysis, food security & poverty reduction, capacity building, community development, participatory action research, improving market access, SMEs, economic modeling & policy analysis and project monitoring and impact evaluation. Fay had been Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). She was also a member of consulting teams for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank. Fay is the Deputy Dean - Research and Development for Curtin Business School (CBS). She provides leadership and direction to the Higher Degree by Research Unit at Curtin Business School. Fay also chairs the CBS Graduate Studies Committee and represents CBS at the University Graduate Studies Committee. Fay is an agricultural economist and socio-economist with more than 25 years experience in international development in various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She has vast experience in rural development, gender analysis, food security & poverty reduction, capacity building, community development, participatory action research, improving market access, SMEs, economic modeling & policy analysis and project monitoring and impact evaluation. Fay had been Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). She was also a member of consulting teams for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank.

Research Interest

Poverty and food security Development economics Agricultural economics Agricultural and rural development and policy analysis Sustainable agricultural development Farmer behaviour and farmer adoption Farming systems research (including farm-household modelling & analysis, crop-livestock systems modelling) Improving market access, marketing and agribusiness supply chain/ value chain analysis SMEs and entrepreneurship (including Indigenous businesses and desert businesses) Gender issues and participatory development Capacity building Economic modelling (macro and micro modelling, bio-economic modelling) Economic analysis of programs or interventions Monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, socio-economic cum environmental impact assessment