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Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues, Fall, 2000

SIMEON EHUI, a national of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Currently, he is Coordinator of the Livestock Policy Analysis Program at the International Livestock Research Institute.

THOMAS HERTEL is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, specializing in the economy-wide analysis of trade policies. He is the founding director of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP).

ALLAN RAE is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied and International Economics at Massey University, New Zealand. His Ph.D. is from the University of New England, Australia. His major research interest is agricultural trade and policy analysis, with a major focus on the Asia/Pacific region.

ALEJANDRO NIN is in the Ph.D. Program in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He is currently working on livestock productivity convergence and international trade in livestock products.

R. G. TAYLOR is an assistant professor of agricultural economics at the University of Idaho, where he has a research and extension appointment working with community and natural resources issues. Garth's irrigation expertise is from the shovel up, on an Idaho family farm.

ARI MICHELSEN is professor of agricultural economics and Resident Director of the El Paso Research and Extension Center, Texas A&M University. He is president-elect of the university's Council on Water Resources.

RAY HUFFAKER is professor of agricultural economics at Washington State University. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics and a J.D. in law, both from the University of California at Davis. His water-related research has focused on agricultural water conservation and water markets.

LINDA-JO SCHIEROW is an environmental policy analyst in the Resources, Science, and Industry Division of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress. She specializes in policies governing toxic chemicals in commerce, and is sometimes referred to as "the poison person" at CRS. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Decision Making from the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environ mental Studies.

CHARLES BENBROOK runs Benbrook Consulting Services in Sandpoint, Idaho. He spent 18 years in Washington D.C. working on pesticide regulatory and pest management issues for the U.S. Congress (1980-1984), the National Academy of Sciences (1984-1990), and as a consultant (1991-1997). He has been involved in the issues underlying the FQPA since the 1970s. He has a Ph.D in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

KEITH ECKEL (not picured) is a tomato, pumpkin, sweet corn and wheat grower from Clark's Summit, Pa. He is the former president of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.

SARAH LYNCH directs the Agriculture Pollution Prevention program at World Wildlife Fund. Sarah's work focuses on promoting agroecosystem conservation through pesticide and agricultural policy reform and accelerated adoption of biologically-based pest and crop management systems through public-private partnerships and market-based incentives. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University and M.S. from Michigan State University, both in Agricultural Economics.

PETE NOWAK is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nowak's research focuses on an analysis of agricultural and conservation innovations. His recent work includes a sociological analysis of site-specific management for agriculture and the information practices of Wisconsin's agrichemical supply industry.

JEB BARZEN is director of field ecology at the International Crane Foundation (ICF). The basis of his work is promoting, implementing and researching conservation on private lands in North America and Asia. Jeb was trained at the Universities of Minnesota and North Dakota.

STEVE DIERCKS is a fifth generation farmer in Wisconsin's irrigated sands region. His 2600 acre operation often cooperates with university researchers to move promising IPM practices from the plot trials to commercial field scale. Diercks is past-president of the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA) and presently serves on the Governor's Commission on the Future of Wisconsin Agriculture.

JOHN WALLENDAL and his family farm 3100 acres of vegetable crops in Wisconsin's golden sands region. An active supporter of biointensive IPM research, Wallendal was recently appointed to the elite EPA/USDA Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition (CARAT) to council the agencies on FQPA implementation. He is also recipient of the National Potato Council Environmentalist Award.

JONATHAN COLEMAN is an economist with the Agriculture and Forest Products Division of the United States International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He specializes in U.S. and world dairy trade policy. He works on WTO U.S. sanctions policies and their impacts on agricultural trade.

KARL MEILKE is professor of agricultural eco nomics and business at the University of Guelph, Co-Director of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Research Network and on the executive committee of the Policy Disputes Information Con sortium. His research program involves the mon itoring of the WTO negotiations on agriculture and the evaluation of trade policy options.