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Joseph W. Glauber
Chief Economist
Joseph Glauber serves as Chief Economist at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). As Chief Economist, he is responsible for the Department's agricultural forecasts and projections and for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on economic implications of alternative programs, regulations, and legislative proposals. He is responsible for the Office of the Chief Economist, the World Agricultural Outlook Board, the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit analysis, the Climate Change Program Office, the Office of Environmental Markets, and the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. Dr. Glauber also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.
From 1992 to 2007, Dr. Glauber served as Deputy Chief Economist at the USDA. In 2007 he was named the Special Doha Agricultural Envoy at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he served as chief agricultural negotiator in the Doha talks until January 2009. In addition to his work in the Doha negotiations, he served as economic adviser at the so-called Blair House agreements leading to the completion of the Uruguay Round negotiations. He is the author of numerous studies on crop insurance, disaster policy and U.S. farm policy. He has also served as senior staff economist for agriculture, natural resources and trade at the President's Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist at the Economic Research Service, USDA.
Dr. Glauber received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 and holds an AB in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
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Robert Johansson
Deputy Chief Economist
Robert Johansson serves as Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this role, he assists the Chief Economist with the Department's agricultural forecasts and projections and with advising the Secretary of Agriculture on economic implications of alternative programs, regulations, and legislative proposals.
Prior to this position, he served as the senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for energy, environment, and agriculture. In addition, he has held several positions at USDA, both at the Economic Research Service and with the Climate Change Program Office within the Office of the Chief Economist. He has held positions at the Office of Management and Budget in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and at the Congressional Budget Office.
Dr. Johansson received his Ph.D. and M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, and B.A. in economics from Northwestern University. His research has spanned a wide range of issues, including biofuels policy, water quality and quantity policies, regulatory economics, food security, and regional modeling of agricultural systems. Prior to graduate school, he served with the U.S. Peace Corps as an extension agent in several African countries.
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Peter Feather
Agricultural Labor Affairs Coordinator
Peter Feather serves as the Agricultural Labor Affairs Coordinator in the Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He is responsible for analyzing the Department's various policies and activities that relate to agricultural labor, and he represents the USDA on immigration issues.
Dr. Feather has held this position since June, 2009. Prior to that, he held positions as the Fuel Economy Division Chief at the Department of Transportation, Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers and Economist at the USDA Economic Research Service.
Dr. Feather received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota in 1992. He also holds BS and MS degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri.
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Elise H. Golan
Director for Sustainable Development
Elise H. Golan is the Director for Sustainable Development for USDA. In this role, she provides leadership in planning, coordinating, and analyzing the Department's various policies, programs and activities that impact and relate to sustainable agricultural, natural resource, and community development including food security.
Prior to this position, Elise served as the Associate Director of the Food Economics Division at the Economic Research Service, USDA. She received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California at Berkeley and completed a post-doctorate fellowship focusing on environmental economics at the University of Haifa, Israel. Before joining USDA, Elise did consulting work for, among others, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and the California Department of Finance. She served as a senior staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998-99.
Dr. Golan’s research has spanned a wide range of sustainability issues, including land tenure and sustainable land management in the Sahel and West Africa; rice-straw burning and sustainable land management in California; regional and U.S. food-system modeling; food labeling and market development; food access, affordability, and security; and the distributional consequences of food policy. |
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Gerald Bange
Chairman, World Agricultural Outlook Board
As Chairperson of the World Board, Gerald Bange
is responsible for the monthly forecasts of the World Agricultural Supply and
Demand Estimates (WASDE) report and also oversees the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility.
Dr. Bange joined the U.S.
Department of Agriculture in 1971 as an agricultural marketing specialist for
the Agricultural Research Service. In 1975, he transferred to the Foreign
Agricultural Service as an agricultural economist where, in 1981, he became
Director of the Foreign Production Estimates Division and, in January 1983,
he was appointed Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Agricultural
Statistics. In October 1983, he transferred to the World Agricultural Outlook
Board where he served as Deputy Chairperson until March 1994 at which time he was appointed to his present position as Chairperson of the Board. Dr. Bange has received numerous awards including the Department's Superior
Service Award and is a two-time recipient of the Presidential Rank Award for
Meritorious Executive. He majored in agricultural economics at the University
of Maryland where he earned a B.S. in 1966, M.S. in 1969, and Ph.D. in 1975. Dr. Bange also serves as Program Chairperson for USDA’s largest annual
meeting, the Agricultural Outlook Forum, which has been hosted by USDA since 1923.
Taking part in today’s Forum are eminent leaders in agriculture. Among the
renowned speakers every year are farmers, ranchers, economists, professors,
statisticians, consultants, industry leaders, and government policymakers. The
role of the Forum is to provide leadership by bringing together the agricultural
community to discuss policy, science, rural development and the economic outlook
for the coming year. The Forum puts the spotlight on the latest scientific research;
new products; the changing dynamics of rural America; and global aspects of trade,
health issues, and the economy |
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Chief Meteorologist
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William Hohenstien
Director, Climate Change Program Office
Mr. Hohenstein serves as the Director of the Climate Change Program Office (CCPO), and is responsible for coordinating climate change research and program activities for the Department. The Climate Change Program Office
provides coordination and policy development support for the Department’s climate change program. It serves as a focal point for support to the Secretary of Agriculture on the causes and consequences of climate change, as well as strategies for addressing climate change.
Before arriving at USDA, Mr. Hohenstein served as a Division Director in EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics. Mr. Hohenstein has a B.S. in Natural Resource Management from Cook College, Rutgers University and a M.E.M. in Resource Economics from Duke University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. |
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Harry Baumes
Director, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses
Harry Baumes returned to the USDA in April 2006 serving as Associate Director of the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. He served as the Acting Director of the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses (OEPNU) from January to November 2010. In December, he was appointed Director by the Chief Economist Director of the Office. In addition to administrative responsibilities, Dr. Baumes’ activities focus on renewable energy policy and evaluation – particularly biofuels and feedstocks. Dr. Baumes has worked on the renewable fuel standard (RFS) and coordinated USDA interaction and collaboration with the EPA on the proposed and final rule for implementing the RFS provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. He was responsible for the overall agenda and for the Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development program for the ministerial level of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference which had representation from over 120 countries and 100 minister level officials, and more than 5000 attended (March 2008).
Prior to returning to the USDA in April 2006 as Associate Director of the OEPNU, Dr. Baumes was Managing Director of Agricultural Services for Global Insight (G.I.). There he had management responsibilities for the Agricultural Group, including domestic and international agriculture sector forecasting and consulting services. While at G.I., Dr. Baumes led three proprietary studies that looked at biofuels and implications for U.S. agriculture. Baumes has more than 30 years of professional experience conducting and/or managing domestic and international agriculture sector studies.
Baumes holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University (1974), a Master of Science degree (1976), and a Doctorate of Philosophy degree (1978) in agricultural economics from Purdue University. Baumes’ graduate studies concentrated on quantitative methods.
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