Keynote Speakers 2023

Bruce A. McCarl

Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University
Bruce A. McCarl is a University Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. His work areas include climate change economics, water, agricultural policy, managerial economics and quantitative analysis. Climate change related projects include work on agricultural vulnerability, adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation plus roles as lead agricultural economic analyst on the 2001 US National Climate Change Assessment, participant in the 2010 National Academy America’s Climate Choices study and lead author on the 2007 and 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports. Dr. McCarl is Deputy Editor of Climatic Change. In recognition of his work he is a fellow of three Agricultural Economics Associations and was a participant in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of over 310 journal articles and 400 other papers/presentations. He has been involved with over $95 million in sponsored research. He has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University in Management Science. He will report on work involving shifting locus of agricultural production and supporting infrastructure.

mccarl@tamu.edu
979 204 6023
Department of Agricultural Economics
77843-2124

Dr. Madhu Khanna

ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Alvin H. Baum Family Chair and Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Madhu Khanna is the ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Alvin H. Baum Family Chair and Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research is at the intersection of agricultural, energy and environmental economics and includes analysis of the land use and environmental effects of bioenergy, the potential for climate smart agriculture by co-locating agricultural and solar energy through Agrivoltaics and the economic incentives for using artificial intelligence-based technologies for sustainable farming. Her research has led to more than 150 peer-reviewed publications that are widely cited. She has served on the USEPA Science Advisory Board for 10 years and as a Chair/member of review panels for NIFA, USEPA and NSF and as a member of USDOE Technical Advisory Committee. She has served on the editorial boards of several prestigious disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals. She is a University of Illinois Scholar, a Stanford Woods Institute of Environment Leopold Leadership Fellow and a Fellow and past President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Alvin H. Baum Family Chair & Director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment
ACES Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics
Co-Director, Center for Economics of Sustainability
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1301, W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801

@: khanna1@illinois.edu
phone: 217-333-5176
fax: 217-333-5538

Eduardo Trigo

Adviser of the Hemispheric Program of Bioeconomy and Productive Development; IICA
Eduardo J. Trigo is Adviser for Bioeconomy Development at the Ministry of Agroindustry and Professor at the Center for Agribusiness of the Austral University, in Argentina. He has an extensive experience as consultant on bioeconomy issues and in the area of science and technology policy, organization and management. He has served as Scientific Adviser for different governmental authorities and as member of Academic Councils. He was Director of Science and Technology at the Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and Director of Research at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR). Trigo has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

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