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2010 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 |
Tom Espel
Corporate Treasurer
R.D. Offutt Co./RDO Equipment Co. |
Neal
Fisher
Director
North Dakota Wheat Commission |
Doug Goehring Commissioner
North
Dakota Agricultural Commission |
Dean Gorder
Director
North Dakota Trade Office |
Mike Krueger
President
The Money Farm
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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 |
Dan Wogsland
Executive Director
North Dakota Grain Growers Association |
2010 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 Research Award (Quality
of Research Discovery) from the American Agricultural Economics
Association in 1981and
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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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Youn Jiang, Research Assistant Professor
Jiang received his Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics with a specialization in mathematical programming, integrated bioeconomic modeling of land use change, and econometrics, from the University of Rhode Island in 2007. His research interests include bioeconomic modeling of land use change, environmental and resource economics, ecological economics, biofuel and climate change policy, environmental policy, farmers’ production behavior, and production economics. |
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Oleksiy Tokovenko,
Research Assistant Professor
Tokovenko received his Ph.D. in Agricultural
Economics, with a specialization in quantitative studies in international agriculture trade from the University of Georgia in 2010. His research interests are dynamic analysis of agricultural trade and marketing, agricultural policy, farm support programs, Bayesian econometrics, computational methods and public economics. |
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Sijesh Chavarattil Aravindhakshan, Research Assistant Professor |
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Aravindhakshan received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in bio-energy production and quantitaive finance from Oklahoma State University in 2010. He has conducted research on economics of bio-energy production and climate change policies. His research interests include foreign direct investment and economic development, bio-energy production and climate change policies.
Complete CV
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Richard Taylor,
Research Scientist of Agricultural Economics
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 Agricultural 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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