Dr. Phillips earned his PhD at the LSE, worked for 13 years as an economist in industry and government and retired in 2023 after 26 years in a series of professorial appointments in agricultural economics, business, political studies and public policy at USask. He developed and held a SSHRC-NSERC Chair in Managing Technological Change, was a founder and director of the vCollege of Biotechnology and was founding director of JSGS at USask. His teaching and research focuses on agri-food innovation policy and strategy. He is author/editor of 19 books, 100 articles and >75 chapters. He currently serves as Chair of Genome Prairie and the Clean Growth Panel with the Canadian Climate Institute; he previously served as Chair of Ag-West Bio and on the CCA Expert Panel on Managing Plant Health Risks.
Related Publications
Smyth, S. J., Phillips, P. W. B., & Castle, D. 2024. An assessment of the linkages between GM crop biotechnology and climate change mitigation. GM Crops & Food, 15(1), 150–169. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2024.2335701
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Ugochukwu, A. I., & Phillips, P. W. B. 2024. Open data ownership and sharing: Challenges and opportunities for application of FAIR principles and a checklist for data managers. In Journal of Agriculture and Food Research (Vol. 16, p. 101157). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2024.101157
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Phillips, P. 2024. Studies in Research Design: Investigating the Genome Canada Experience. Working Paper. LINK
Phillips, P. and D. Castle. 2022. Ideas, Institutions, and Interests: Canadian Provincial Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. University of Toronto Press.
Pixley, K, Falck-Zepeda, J, Paarlberg, R, Phillips, P, Slamet-Loedin, I, Dhugga, K, Campos, H and Gutterson, N. 2022. Genome Edited Crops for Improved Food Security of Smallholder Farmers. Nature Genetics.