Professor Dan Rigby

Dan Rigby is a Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, and also holds a position at the University of Western Australia. He has been undertaking research in food and agriculture for over 25 years with his work increasingly focused on food and food safety.

Much of his research involves the design of surveys to elicit preferences and priorities, typically involving Discrete Choice Experiments or Best Worst Scaling techniques.

He has worked on projects to estimate the economic cost of foodborne illness in the UK and USA, and the economic costs of food hypersensitivities in the UK.

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