Jonathan Brooks is Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Agricultural Economics


Jonathan Brooks is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Agricultural Economics. He was Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe in 2023, as well as earlier in 2013-14, when he taught courses on food security and on food and agricultural policy. From 1999 to 2023 Dr Brooks worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where he held positions as Head of the Agricultural Resource Policies Division (2020-23) and Head of the Agri-food Trade and Markets Division (2014-2019) in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate. Before joining OECD he was a Lecturer at the University of Reading. Dr Brooks has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis; an MS in Economics from Purdue University; and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was President of the Agricultural Economics Society in 2022-2023.