Ravipim Chaveesuk
Kasetsart University
Bangkok, Thailand

Ravipim Chaveesuk is an East Asian professor with an agro-industry technology management background.

Ravipim’s research interests include: Systems modeling and analysis using computational intelligence (neural networks and fuzzy logic), classical probability and statistics and geostatistics; Capital project investment analysis; Data mining in agro-industry; Design and analysis of experiments; and Agro-industrial supply chain.

Daniel Conforte
Universidad ORT
Montevideo, Uruguay

Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Daniel Conforte is a professor who previously worked three blocks from MERCOSUR's headquarters. While continuing his work in the MERCOSUR region, he is now lecturing abribusiness and doing his doctoral studies at Massey University.

He has 20 years experience in farm and agribusiness management. He was head of the department of agribusiness management at Universidad ORT Uruguay, where he taught agribusiness marketing and strategy. Daniel is the founder and managing director of Farming Uruguay.

Yann Duval
Economist
Bangkok, Thailand

Yann Duval is an economist with extensive experience with Asia-Pacific trade and investment.

Yann’s areas of expertise are: Neuro-fuzzy logic applications in financial forecasting and management; International trade and the environment, Alternative energy economics; Web-based marketing research; E-commerce and agribusiness.

Allen Featherstone
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

The department’s graduate program has experienced strong growth under the direction of Professor Featherstone. He guided the development of the Master in Agribusiness degree. His research program has resulted in more than 80 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. As a leading agriculture finance scholar, Allen has assisted the industry on mergers, loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farm land, and alternative federal tax systems.

Nicolas Habert
Ecole d' ingénieurs de Purpan
Toulouse, France

Nicolas Habert is a Purpan professor with a background in the European banking industry.

Nicolas’s research activities focus on agricultural options and futures markets, risk management for the cooperative and the producer. He is the Senior Professor of Master’s Degree students at Purpan and specializes in trade and international Finance.

Lisa House
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Lisa House’s research expertise is in Agribusiness Marketing and Management; Consumer Tastes and Preferences. Some of the topics she is currently researching include: the impact of social networks on brand adoption; the impact of food marketing on obesity; consumer perceptions of GM and Organic products; and culture and food consumption.

Theodora Hyuha
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

Theodora Hyuha is a senior lecturer and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness.

Theodora is involved in teaching courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She teaches taught Agricultural Development, Rural Development and Research Methodology courses. She has successfully supervised over 12 graduate students. Her research work has appeared in some reputable journals including Eastern Africa Economic Review, Journal of Agricultural Sciences and chapters in books.

Rajinder Sidhu
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana, India

Rajinder Sidhu is an economics professor who specializes in agricultural policies analysis and farm economics.

Dr. Sidhu teaches courses in Advanced Agricultural Economics, Advanced Agricultural Financial Management, Agricultural Finance and Cooperation, and Agricultural Growth, Development, Policy and Planning to graduate and Ph.D. students. He is currently serving as Dean of Postgraduate Studies in Economics. Dr. Sidhu also supervises research activities of the Agro Economic Research Center.

Pavel Sorokin
Moscow State Agro-Engineering University
Moscow, Russia

Pavel Sorokin is a Russian professor who has served in Russian and Soviet Union embassies.

As a faculty member for over 30 years Pavel has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management and Agricultural Marketing at Moscow State Agro-Engineering University. He has published several textbooks and over 75 articles on agricultural economics, farm management and marketing, agricultural education and foreign agriculture.

Keith Woodford
Lincoln University
Christchurch, New Zealand

Keith Woodford is an instructor with a background in farming systems, agribusiness and international rural development

Dr. Woodford teaches Farm Management and Agribusiness at postgraduate, undergraduate, and diploma levels. He has worked on rural development and education projects in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. He has also undertaken consultancies in many other Asian countries including China, Laos, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and East Timor.