47th Annual Conference and
Future Leaders Forum

June 5-8, 2011

"Building the Capacity to Transform the Food Security Landscape"

Speakers and Panelists

David Hansen, Ohio State University & APLU

David Hansen is a Senior Fellow with the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), Washington, D.C. His major responsibilities include the Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative which promotes partnerships among U.S. and African Higher Education Institutions. He was involved in the development and funding of eleven higher education partnerships and works closely with staff at the Higher Education for Development Office which has primary responsibility for managing these partnerships. Dr. Hansen also retains a part-time appointment with Ohio State University. In this capacity he works on issues dealing with international programs in agriculture. Prior to these appointments, he was a tenured faculty member at Ohio State University,

having worked overseas for that institution on university programs; as the Director of International Programs in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; and as a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served for two years in Bolivia.