Claus Deblitz

Date of birth	July 10, 1961
Nationality	German
Marital status	Married, two daughters
Language skills	German – native speaker English – very good Spanish – good
Countries worked in	Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, USA
Positions and functions	Coordinator of the *agri benchmark* Beef & Cow-Calf Network
Education	1993 PhD in Agricultural Economics International competitiveness of grazing systems with beef cattle and sheep 1989 Diploma in Agriculture Status quo and income alternatives in a less favoured area in Germany
Publications List of Publications » Professional experience (Descending chronological order) 2007-2008 Research stay at the University of Sydney / Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia. Director of the Asian Agribusiness Research Centre (AARC) http://www.csu.edu.au/research/aarc/ since 2008–today Senior researcher at the vTI-Institute of Farm Economics, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) Braunschweig, Germany 1996–2007 Senior researcher at the Institute of Farm Economics and Rural Studies (BAL), Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) Braunschweig, Germany 2001-2006 Coordination of the Beef Network 2001 Founder of the IFCN Beef Network 2000-2001 Research stay at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 1996-2000 General project management, dairy and cash crop analysis 1996 Co-founder of the International Farm Comparison Network IFCN, the predecessor of *agri benchmark* 1993-1996 Project manager at Agriculture and Food Consultants, Bonn, Germany