2025 Executive Committee
The Executive Committee has general responsibility for the direction and operation of the Consortium but seeks the advice of the membership on all pertinent matters.
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor
2025 Chair and Non-U.S. Universities Representative 2024-2026
tel: 519-824-4120
safesorg@uoguelph.ca
University of Guelph
Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics
Room, MacLachlan Building
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, Onatario N1G 2W1
Canada
Amanda Countryman
U.S. Universities Representative 2023-2025
tel: 970-491-3299
Amanda.Countryman@colostate.edu
Colorado State University
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Clark B-329
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1172
United States
Sunghun Lim
U.S. Universities Representative 2025-2027
tel: 225-578-2766
SLim@agcenter.lsu.edu
Louisiana State University
Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
273 Martin D. Woodin Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
United States
Felix Baquedano
2024 Vice-Chair and ERS/USDA Representative
Felix.Baquedano@usda.gov
Economic Research Service
US Department of Agriculture
805 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64105
United States
Shawn Arita
OCE/USDA Representative
tel: 202-401-0497
Shawn.Arita@usda.gov
Office of Chief Economist
U.S. Department of Agriculture
112A Whitten Building
1400 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20250
United States
Bernard Cantin
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Representative
tel: 613-773-2055
Bernard.Cantin@canada.ca
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Policy Analysis Division
1341 Baseline Road, Tower 7
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C5
Canada
Steve Neff
FAS/USDA Representative
tel: 202-690-0855
steve.neff@fas.usda.gov
Foreign Agricultural Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20250
United States
Past Executive Committee Members are listed in Appendix A of The Blue Book [pdf].
2025 Program Committee
The Program Sub-Committee provides the Executive Committee recommendations on specific topics of Public Symposia and Theme Days and suggests topics for Commissioned Papers and Trade Issues Papers.
Shida Henneberry, Chair
2023-2025
shida.henneberry@usda.gov
USDA Economic Research Service
International Trade and Development
Markets and Trade Economics Division
805 Pennsylvania Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64105
United States
Charlotte Emlinger
2023-2025
tel: 33 (0)1 53 68 55 55
charlotte.emlinger@cepii.fr
CEPII
20 avenue de Ségur
TSA 10726
75334 Paris cedex 07
France
Shamar Stewart
2024-2026
tel: 540-231-6108
stewartls@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
208 Hutcheson Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
United States
The Blue Book: Dec. 2015 Edition VIII {PDF}
The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC or Consortium) is a unique international association of agricultural trade researchers and policy practitioners. Over the past 30 years, the Consortium has established itself as one of the premier institutions for advancing the frontiers of knowledge on agricultural trade and trade policy that has informed both policy formulation and public debate.
This is the April 2010 version, prepared by the 2008 Executive Committee and includes updated contact and financial administration information. This document outlines the objectives, organization, operations and origins of the IATRC. It updates the corresponding versions issued in June 1985 (original edition), July 1988 (Edition II), October 1991 (Edition III), October 1997 (Edition IV), and September 2007 (Edition V) by incorporating decisions taken at meetings of the general membership and the Executive Committee since that time. Separate occasional documents and the IATRC website present historical and upcoming plans for the IATRC meetings.
Sponsors
Core financial support for IATRC is provided by the USDA (Economic Research Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of the Chief Economist) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Both financial and in-kind support has been provided for selected IATRC activities by the European Commission, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency of International Development, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and other numerous institutions over the past quarter century. Some recent contributors include the Farm Foundation, the Giannini Foundation, Seoul National University, the Korea Rural Economic Institute, and Beijing University. A complete list of sponsors for each IATRC activity can be found in the Activities section. In addition, Consortium Members’ home institutions provide travel support for meeting attendance and participation.