Biosketch for William A. Masters

Will Masters is Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics at Tufts. He is coauthor of Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and since 2020 has led the Food Prices for Nutrition project that introduced new metrics for the cost and affordability of healthy diets worldwide. He also directs Tufts University activities in support of the ANH Academy, and his courses on economics of agriculture, food and nutrition were recognized with student-nominated, University-wide teaching awards in 2019 and 2022.  He is an elected Fellow of both the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (since 2020) and the American Society for Nutrition (since 2025).