dr. R (Rico) Ihle

Dr. Rico Ihle is an associate professor at the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University. He holds a PhD from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany).

Dr. Ihle is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Agricultural Socio-Economics of the Universitas Padjadjaran located in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia’s second largest urban center and the seventh largest urban agglomeration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In 2024 he has been elected Secretary General of the International Network for the MBA Agribusiness and Commerce (AgriMBA). For AgriMBA he has taught courses at Technical University of Moldova, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine as well as Kazan State Agricultural University (Russia).

His teaching focuses on economic and policy analysis for agricultural and food markets, on the sustainability transformation of the EU food systems as well as on quantitative research methods and research skills for market and policy analysis. At WUR he is teaching the BEB courses Econometrics (AEP21306), Economics of Agriculture, Food and Policy (AEP21806) as well as the MME course Economics of EU policies for sustainable food systems (AEP30306) and the PhD course Intro to R programming for Social Sciences at WASS. He has organized BEB study tours (YSS21303) to Slovakia, Morocco, Hungary and Munich. Currently, he is supervising 5 PhD students and several BSc and MSc students.