Dr. Tim Dalton
Interim Director
Dr. Dalton’s career focuses on technology impact assessment and research priority setting. From 2013 to 2023, he served as the director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet where he built a multidisciplinary portfolio of research activities.
Dalton's research and development experience in sorghum and millet stretches back more than 30 years to a master’s thesis on dryland sorghum and millet farming systems in the peanut basin of Senegal, followed by an award-winning doctoral dissertation on the Ex Ante Economic Impact of Improved Sorghum Varieties on Soil Degradation in Southern Mali in 1996.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, a Master of Science in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Purdue University. Dalton is a Department of Agricultural Economics professor at Kansas State University. Dr. Dalton is fluent in French.