45th Annual Conference and
2009 Future Leaders Forum

May 31 - June 2, 2009

"Food in a Global Economic Crisis: Impacts and Solutions"

Speakers and Panelists

John W. Mellor

Mellor is currently President of John Mellor Associates, Inc, a policy consulting firm. Prior to that he was Vice-President of Abt Associates, Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Chief Economist of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID.) At Cornell University he was Professor of Economics, Agricultural Economics and Asian Studies, Director of the Comparative Economics Program and the Center for International Studies. He was a visiting

Professor at the American University, Beirut, and Balwant Rajput College, India. He was the recipient of the Wihuri Prize (Finland) and the Presidential Award (The White House, USA) for efforts to alleviate hunger in the World and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards for the quality of his research, the author and co-author of nine books, and hundreds of journal articles and conference papers. He has worked intensively in Afghanistan, both on foreign aid projects and in with his family businesses.

Mr. Mellor's 2009 Presentation