Dr. Myles Watts
- Currently serves as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at
Montana State University.
- Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, 1978.
- Twelve years as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. Responsible for personnel, program, and budget management. Regularly leads multi-disciplinary research teams and funding efforts.
- Twenty-three years as a member of the faculty of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.
- Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics. Responsible for academic quality of published articles.
- Ten years of experience as a Principal Investigator in crop insurance policy research, product development, and potential fraud detection. Recently led a team involving economists, data-mining experts, and fraud investigators to develop methods to detect high fraud potential producers, agents, and adjustors.
- Project Director for following USDA funded projects:
- Prevented Planting Study
- Multiple Year Coverage Risk Management Program
- Feasibility of Revenue Coverage Plans that Maximize Producer Revenue
- Reviewed Livestock Revenue and Livestock Gross Margin submitted products
- Cotton Boll Weevil Eradication Program Impact on Actual Production History Yields
- Applying Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Data Analysis Techniques Toward Crop Insurance Loss Patterns Analysis Project
- Developing Catastrophic Rating Methodology and Incorporating CAT Coverage Data
- Twenty-five years experience in risk management and agricultural policy research.
- Regularly interacts with producer groups and politicians on public policy issues.
- Published over 100 professional papers and twenty disciplinary-referred journal articles.
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Key Staff Profiles
Dr. Myles Watts
Dr. Joe Atwood
Dr. James Driscoll
Tim Watts
Steve Loar, MCSE, MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA
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