This interview is with William B (Bill) Lacy, Professor Emeritus Human Ecology and Vice Provost Emeritus for University Outreach and International Programs. He came to Davis in 1999 and retired in 2021.

Prior to arriving at Davis, Dr. Lacy was the Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and Associate Dean of the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Human Ecology at Cornell University 1994-1998.  Dr. Lacy has authored over eighty journal articles and book chapters and eight books on education, science policy, agricultural research and extension, biotechnology and biodiversity. He has received grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.  He served as Interim Chair for  Human Ecology from 2017 to 2019.

Dr. Lacy is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of two Fulbright awards for international education administrators and the German Academic Exchange Services award. He founded the UC Senior International Leader's Council and chaired that group from 2002-2005, and is the past president of three national/international professional organizations: the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (1993), the Rural Sociological Society (1999), and the Association of International Education Administrators (2010-2011).

He is interviewed by his friend and colleague, Catherine Brinkley, Professor of Human Ecology.