Dr. Gray's research interests are related to the economics of research, including intellectual property rights, the dynamics of knowledge pricing, Public Producer Private Partnership (4P) models of research, and crop research funding models. Richard has also studied various agricultural innovation systems in Canada, Australia, the UK and France. He is very interested in how genomics could change the nature of international crop research.

Richard Gray is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. He has studied and published on many aspects of crop innovation and currently leads CAIRN the Canadian Agricultural Innovation and Regulation Network. Richard is also Member of the Science Advisory Board for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Professor Gray joined the University in 1990 after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Since then, Dr. Gray has supervised over thirty graduate students and has studied a wide range of agricultural policy issues. He is widely published and has received a number of awards for his research. Dr. Gray has also served as Department Head and President for the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. In May of each year you can find Richard sowing grains and oilseeds on the family farm.