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2009 Advisory Board |
Byron
Dorgan
U.S.
Senator |
Eric
Aasmundstad
President
North Dakota Farm Bureau |
Dave
Berg
President
and CEO
American Crystal Sugar Co. |
Robert
Carlson
President
North Dakota Farmers Union |
Neil
Conklin
President
Farm Foundation |
D.C. Coston
Vice President for Agricultural Affairs
North Dakota State University |
Neal
Fisher
Director
ND Wheat Commission |
Doug Goehring
Commissioner
North
Dakota Agricultural Commission |
Tom Lilja
Executive Director
North Dakota Corn Council |
Bob Sinner
President
SB&B Foods, Inc. |
Brian Sorenson
Director
Northern Crops Institute
North Dakota State University |
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2009 Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies Staff
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Director : Dr. Won W. Koo
Chamber
of Commerce Distinguished Professor
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Koo
is a Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor of Agribusiness
and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University. He
received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Iowa State
University in 1974. He was a faculty member at Montana State
University for the 1975-1981 period before moving to North
Dakota State University in 1981. He has been teaching international
trade and econometrics for both graduate and undergraduate
students. His research interests include international competitiveness,
agricultural and trade policies, and international market
development.
He
has published more than 130 refereed journal articles and
book chapters and about 230 research reports. He
has also edited four books and published a textbook on international
trade. He received the Outstanding
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Research Award (Quality
of Research Discovery) from the American Agricultural Economics
Association in 1981 and the Outstanding Published Research
Award from the Western Agricultural Economics Association
in 1983. Dr. Koo also received the Eugene R. Dahl Excellence in Research Award - Senior Career, from the College of Agriculture in 2000 and 2008. He is the recipient of the 45th Faculty Lectureship Award at NDSU for 2003 and was named the Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor in the same year. In 2009, he received the Fred Waldron Award for Outstanding Research.
Dr. Won W. Koo's complete CV |
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Research Faculty:
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Jungho
Baek, Research Assistant Professor |
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| Baek
received his Ph.D. in Resource Economics, with a specialization
in Econometrics, Microeconomics, and International Trade, from
Michigan State University in 2004. Prior to CAPTS, he has conducted
research for the Department of Forestry, at Michigan State University,
and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, in
South Korea. His research interests are in the field of international
economics and econometric modeling. |
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Dae-Heum
Kwon,
Research Assistant Professor |
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| Kwon received his PhD in Agricultural
Economics, with a specialization in Econometrics and Time-series
analyses from Texas A&M University in 2007. He has conducted
research on the U.S. monetary policy effects and the U.S. consumer
behavior in relation to soft drink products. His research interests
include the causality and aggregation issues in econometric
and time-series modeling. |
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Hyun Soek Kim, Research Assistant Professor |
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| Kim received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in quantitative studies in risk management and marketing strategy from Oklahoma State University in 2008. He is conducting research on the economics of carbon trading and risk management in agricultural trade. His research interests are price analysis, risk management, and econometrics. |
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Richard Taylor,
Research Scientist of Agricultural Economics |
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| Taylor is a Research Associate
at the Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies at North
Dakota State University. He received his MS degree in agricultural
economics from North Dakota State University in 1990 and joined
NDSU as a research associate in 1991. He had several years of
experience in farming before entering the graduate program at
NDSU. He is responsible for maintaining the North Dakota farm
economy model, the U.S. and world wheat industries model, and
the U.S. and world sugar industries model. |
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Research Fellows:
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Cheryl Wachenheim,
Associate Professor of Agribusiness & Applied Economics, NDSU
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Tom Wahl, Professor of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and Assistant Director of Global Initiatives, North Dakota Agricultral Experiment Station, NDSU |
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Jennifer Carney, Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies
Email: jennifer.carney@ndsu.edu
Phone: 701-231-7334
Office: Barry Hall 400
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