Jordan Chamberlin worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University before accepting a long-term assignment as a research fellow at the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Lusaka, Zambia. Chamberlin currently conducts collaborative research and training on microeconomic analysis of small-holder livelihoods in Zambia and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. He started his work in rural development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay.