David Orden joined IFPRI in August 2003 as senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division to conduct research on agricultural policy and international trade, including the impacts of industrialized country agricultural subsidies on developing countries. Orden is also professor of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (on leave). He has carried out research and public policy education programs on exchange rate effects on agriculture, macroeconomic dynamic econometrics, the economics and political economy of domestic support policies and international trade negotiations, and technical barriers to trade. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia (1990), chairman of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (1996-97), and Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1998-99). Orden received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.

• Agricultural policy and international trade
• Impacts of industrialized country agricultural subsidies on developing countries

• Food Regulation and Trade: Toward a Safe and Open Global System
  Josling, Timothy, Donna Roberts and David Orden. Institute for International Economics, 2003.
• Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis
  Orden, David, Robert Paarlberg and Terry Roe. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
• Effects of Tariffs and Sanitary Barriers on High- and Low-Value Poultry Trade.
  Peterson, Everett and David Orden Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 30:1 109-127. April 2005.
• Reform's Stunted Crop
  Orden, David. Regulation 25:1 (Spring 2002): 26-32. 2002.
• Least-Trade-Restrictive SPS Policies
  Orden, David, Clare Narrod and Joseph W. Glauber. In The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement (K. Anderson, C. McRae and D. Wilson, editors), Centre for International Economic Studies and Agriculture, University of Adelaide, pp. 183-215. 2001.
• Environmental Quality and Industry Protection with Noncooperative versus Cooperative Domestic and Trade Policies
  Schleich, Joachim and David Orden. Review of International Economics 8:4 (November 2000): 681-697. 2000.