SENIOR FELLOWS

Mary Ahearn – Former C-FARE Vice Chair; former ERS/USDA Agricultural Economist, Branch Chief, Assistant Administrator, Associate Division Director, and Senior Economist. CV

Gary Alex – Former Agricultural Development Officer in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and Manager of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program; United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  Bio 

Jean-Paul Chavas – Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Bio

Klaus Frohberg – Emeritus Professor and Member of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn, Germany. Bio

Mozart Fonseca – Associate Professor, Clayton Livestock Research Center, New Mexico State University CV

Keith Fuglie – Chief Economist, Food Security Leadership Council and Senior Consultant, World Bank. Former Chief, Resources and Environment and Science Policy Branch, ERS, USDA and Senior Economist, Bureau of Food Security, USAID. CV

Thomas R. Harris – Professor, Department of Economics, Director of the University Center for Economic Development, and State Extension Specialist – Economic Development, University of Nevada, Reno. CV

Stanley Johnson– Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD); Vice-Provost for Extension, Iowa State University. CV

Maureen Kilkenny – Doctor Honoris Causa, Jönköping University, Sweden; Honorary Professor, Aberystwyth University.  Formerly Iowa State University, University of Nevada, Economic Research Service, USDA. CV

Man-Keun Kim – Professor, Department of Applied Economics; specializing in regional economics, agribusiness and energy economics; Utah State University.  CV

David Krog – Entrepreneur in Residence/Lecturer Iowa State Univesity; Senior Associate/Consultant Cirrus Partners; Co-Founder E-Markets, Inc.  Bio

Chyi-lyi (Kathleen) Liang – W.K. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and Community Food Systems;  Co-Director, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. CV

James MacDonald – Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland. Former Chief of the Structure, Technology, and Productivity Branch, Economic Research Service, USDA. CV

Willi Meyers – Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri. Former Director, Agricultural and Development Economics, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO). Bio

GianCarlo Moschini – Professor and Pioneer Chair in Science and Technology Policy, Department of Economics, Iowa State University. Bio

Mary Muth – Food and agricultural economist focusing on analyses of policy topics such as food demand, labeling, nutrition, waste, reformulation, and safety. Former Senior Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA and Senior Director, Food Economics & Policy, RTI International. CV

Rangesan Narayanan – Former Associate Dean and Professor, College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources, University of Nevada, Reno and the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station.  Bio

Francesca Nelson – Food for Peace Officer.  Former Senior Scientist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)-Consortium for International Global Agricultural Research (CGIAR). CV 

Peter Orazem – University Professor,  Department of Economics,  Iowa State University. Bio

Alejandro Plastina – Director of the Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center (RaFF) at the University of Columbia-Missouri.  https://cafnr.missouri.edu/directory/alejandro-plastina/  CV

Michele ver Ploeg – food economics, nutrition assistance, food environment, poverty. Former Senior Economist with the Economic Research Service, USDA. CV

K. Aleks Schaefer  JD, PhD — Associate Professor, Oaklahoma State University; 2019 Outstanding Lecturer – Royal Veterinary College, University of London  CV

David Sedik  – Former Senior Agricultural Policy Officer, UN-FAO, Chief Economist, USAID projects;  Economist with the Economic Research Service, USDA. Bio

Farzad Taheripour – Research Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University .CV