Friday October 25, 2024 – Dr. Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota

Bio: Marc F. Bellemare is Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, and Northrop Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, where he also directs the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. Marc currently serves as one of four co-editors of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Prior to that, he served as one of two co-editors of Food Policy from 2015 to 2019. For his research, he has won the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2007, the AAEA’s Outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article award in 2011, and the AAEA’s Quality of Research Discovery awards in 2014. That same year, he also won the European Association of Agricultural Economists‘ Quality of Research Discovery Award. His research has been featured in media outlets such as The Economist, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the Wall Street Journal. In early 2023, he was elected Fellow of the AAEA.

Friday, October 11, 2024 – Dr. Marianne Bitler, UC Davis