Geoffrey Ferster studied at the University of Minnesota, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural and managerial economics, with a focus on land and regional economic development. He later received appointments at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, University of Exeter, UK (applied health economics in the National Health Service), and with WHO in Indonesia's Ministry of Health, which enabled him to work with a wide variety of professionals, bureaucrats and villagers. As an independent consultant to the World...