Speaking

I give a variety of talks to academic, farmer, food, agribusiness, and general public audiences. Subjects range from presentations of my latest research to my take on the social and economic impacts of food policies to my thoughts on current food trends and events. Below is a selected list of forthcoming and previous invited and keynote addresses.

Please contact Kwabena Dinizulu the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau (kdinizulu@penguinrandomhouse.com) if you'd like me to speak at your event or for your organization.

Previous talks

2023

Midwest Pork Conference; University of Verona; Frozen Food Institute; Arizona State University; Strauss Family Business Partners; Fertilizer Institute; University of Warsaw, Poland

2022

Iowa Pork Congress; US Cyberstructure and Infrastructure Security Agency Food and Agriculture Sector Joint Membership Meeting; Indian Institute for Technology Delhi; Indian Institute for Technology Madras; Meristem Crop Performance; University of Arkansas; National Pork Board; Department of Homeland Security; National Academies of Science; Indiana Legislative Rural Caucus; Ivy Tech Community College; Shell Egg Academy; BASF; Bayer; National Chicken Council

2021

Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) annual meeting; Arizona State University; Land, Environment, Economics, and Policy (LEEP) Institute, University of Exeter, UK; Illinois Farm Bureau; National Turkey Federation; University of Florida; National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; Kansas State University; Indiana Farm Bureau and Indiana Agriculture Coalition for Renewable Energy; Indiana Soybean Alliance; Zoetis; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley; National Pork Board; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; World Pork Expo; Manna Tree Partners; National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE); International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR); European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE); Ospraie Ag Science; Co-Alliance; Good Food Institute; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA); National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium; US House Agriculture Committee; UC Berkeley, Alternative Meats Lab; Zoetis Animal Health, Mexico; Heritage Foundation; US Chambers of Commerce; Digital Ag Seminar Series, Purdue

2020

Nebraska Cooperative Council; Food Tech Conference; Indiana Beef Cattle Association; Lethbridge College, Canada; Missouri Farm Bureau; Indiana Agribusiness Council; University of Illinois, Farmdoc; International Food Information Council (IFIC); National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research (NCFAR), Lunch-N-Learn Hill Research Seminar Series; South Dakota Farm Bureau; United States Soybean Export Council; Delmarva Poultry Industry National Meeting; Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE), Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; National Pork Board; Agriculture and Agri-food Canada; Farm Journal Foundation; Council for Agricultural Science and Technology; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Livable Future; Chicago Federal Reserve Bank

2019

Kansas Women Managing the Farm Conference; Kansas State University, Economics Department, Series on Economic Prosperity; North Central Texas College; Filley-Gary Public Lecture, University of Nebraska; Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise, North Dakota State University; University and Industry Consortium; Food and Ag at the Intersection Conference; Indiana Life Sciences; Collaboration Conference on the Intersection of Food, Diet, and Healthcare; Mississippi Farm Bureau; Corteva; Elanco Feedlot Forum; Merck Animal Health; Tom Farms; Howell Farms; Indiana Farm Bureau; Corn Refiners Association; Missouri Farm Bureau; American Veterinary Medical Association; National Chicken Council; Purdue Food and Agribusiness Executive Summit

2018

Federal Research Bank of Atlanta; National Grain and Feed Association and Pet Food Institute Joint Conference; CGB; Experimental Auction Summer School, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy; Nationwide/Farm Bureau Leadership Conference; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association; Association of Agricultural Production Executives (AAPEX); Bayer forum; National Grain and Feed Association; Michigan State University; Food Marketing Institute; Council for Agricultural Science and Technology; Animal Agriculture Alliance; Land O'Lakes; International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research; Indiana Farm Bureau

2017

Farm Forum, Calgary, Canada; Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) event on Sustainable Livestock Production, Washington, DC; George Morris AgriFood Policy Lecture, University of Guelph, Canada; Borlaug CAST Communication; Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics of Food Consumption, INRA and University of Grenoble, France; West Texas A&M University; National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; AAEA-CFARE Event on Priorities and Solutions at National Press Club, Washington DC; Texas Tech University; NBER conference on agricultural productivity; California Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) Feeder Council and Arizona Cattle Feeders Association (ACFA); AAEA young professional's workshop; Breakthrough Dialogue; Western Agricultural Economics Association; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association; European Association of Agricultural Economists

2016

Iowa Cattleman's Association; Soybean Leadership College; Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society; DuPont Pioneer; University of Minnesota; Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE); FoodBev Forum, American Enterprise Institute; Farm Foundation Round Table; Experimental Auction Summer School, Sicily, Italy; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual conference; K-State Symposium on Cooperative Issues; University of Idaho; Auburn University; University of Georgia; Montana State University; GrowCanada

2015

Conference on Coexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural Supply Chains, Amsterdam; University of California, Davis; University of Nebraska; Free Enterprise Institute, Oklahoma State University; Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK; Southern Plains Beef Symposium; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association meeting; Experimental Auction Summer School, Crete, Italy; Zoetis Pork Value Chain Executive Forum; Texas Tech University; Grocery Manufacturers Association; University of Naples, Italy; University of Connecticut; Iowa Farm Bureau; University of Alberta

2014

National Pork Producers Council; Langston University; South Carolina Farm Bureau; American Feed Industry Association; Susquehanna University; Pickle Packers International; European Association of Agricultural Economics congress, Slovenia; Virginia Tech University; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Minneapolis, MN; Iowa Grocery Industry Association; Iowa Soybean Association; Reciprocal Meat Conference; American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; Genus PIC conference; Global Food Safety conference; American Farmers and Ranchers convention; Oklahoma Soybean Association; American Farm Bureau annual conference; Delaware Ag Week

2013

Future of Food Series for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University; Noble Foundation’s Profiles and Perspectives Community Enrichment series; Rural Economic Outlook Conference; Free Enterprise Lecture Series at The Ohio State University; Gilliam Center for Free Enterprise and Ethical Leadership, James Madison University; Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program symposium; Truth about Trade and Technology board meeting; Summer school on experimental auctions, University of Bologna, Italy; International Agricultural Leadership Alumni Conference; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Washington DC; Oscar Mayer Meat Science Summit; Merck Cattle Feeders Business Summit; Food Dialogues even on Transparency in Food, Chicago, IL; Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Ithaca, NY; National Pork Producers Council and the Pork Board and Retail Advisory Committee; Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) seminar on USDA data products, Washington DC; Oklahoma Pork Congress; Plant and Soil Science Department, Oklahoma State University; Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama-Birmingham; Meat and Poultry Research Conference hosted by the American Meat Institute at the International Production and Processing Expo, Atlanta, GA

2012

Fred Presant Visiting Lecturer, University of Guelph, Canada

TEDx event at Oklahoma State University

Shepherd Lecture, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, IL

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual conference, Seattle, WA

Wageningen University School of Social Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands

National Academies of Science, Institute of Medicine, Planning Committee on Exploring the True Costs of Food, Washington, D.C.

2011

INRA-IDEI Seminar on Quality Labels in the Agrofood Industry, Toulouse School of Economics, France

Technical University of Munich, Germany

European Association of Agricultural Economists conference, Zurich Switzerland

Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), ALISS (alimentation et sciences socials), Ivry-Sur-Seine, France

Briefing to congressional staffers as a part of the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research (NC-FAR) Lunch and Learn Seminar series. Washington, DC

Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin

Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Canada

2010

Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics, Grenoble, France

Brain Korea’s Distinguished Scholars’ Lectures Series, Department of Economics at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas (KOMA) annual cattle conference. Dewey, OK,

Farm Foundation Conference on Agricultural Marketing Policy at the USDA, Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C.

2009

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Workshop on Valuation Methods in Agro-Food and Environmental Economics hosted by the Centre for Research on Agro-Food and Development Economics (CREDA), Barcelona, Spain

Consumer Market Demand Research Network, Ottawa, Canada

Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lancing, MI

Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Journée du Pôle Alimentation Parisien conference on Food Choice Analysis and Experimental Methods hosted by Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Paris, France

Selected older presentations

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare, Manhattan, KS

Soybean Checkoff Leaders Forum, Des Moines, IA

Board of Directors of the United Soybean Board, St. Louis, MO

Department of Economics and Finance and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wyoming

Merial/Drovers Beef Functional Genomics Roundtable. Kansas City, MO

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE.

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland. College Park, MD

International Quality Grains Conference. Indianapolis, IN