Rate My Professor Hamish Gow

Professor Hamish Gow is the Sir Graeme Harrison Professorial Chair in Global Value Chains and Trade in the Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce at Lincoln University, New Zealand, appointed in July 2021. He holds a BCom (Ag) from Lincoln University, an MS in Agricultural Finance, and a PhD in Marketing and Food Distribution from Cornell University. His career includes a professorship in Agribusiness at Massey University, faculty positions at the University of Illinois, Michigan State University, Cornell University, KU Leuven in Belgium, and the Slovakian Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia. Gow has consulted for the World Bank, European Commission, OECD, IFAD, USDA, USAID, UNIDO, FAO, and governments across over 50 countries on agribusiness innovation, market development, food safety, trade facilitation, and value chain projects. He founded the International Food Safety Network as part of the Global Food Safety Initiative and served as its first Executive Director, and established the Food Safety Knowledge Network at Michigan State University and the Global Markets Program at the Global Food Safety Initiative.

Gow's research interests encompass agricultural value chains, agricultural finance, business model design, food industry management, food system governance, and international rural development. Notable publications include 'Understanding the influence of indigenous values on change in the dairy industry' (2022), 'Third-Party Facilitation of Market Linkages in the Agri-Food Supply Chain: Evidence from the Armenian Vegetable Industry' (2016), 'Investment responses to third-party market facilitation in Armenia' (2014), and 'The Effect of Market Orientation on Learning, Innovativeness, and Performance in Primary Agriculture' (2014). He serves as the inaugural independent ministerial-nominated member of the Fonterra Milk Price Panel and academic advisor to Nuffield New Zealand. At Lincoln University, he lectures in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Strategic Management in Wine and Horticultural Business Systems, and Primary Industry Systems.