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Keynote Address

Marc Nerlove
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

Keynote Address
Sunday, July 25, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Marc Nerlove is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. He has previously held professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Minnesota. He has been visiting Professor at Harvard University and a large number of foreign universities, and a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim, and Research School of Social Science, Australian National University.

He received his Bachelors degree with Honors in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1952 and his PhD with distinction in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1956. He has been an Analytical Statistician with the U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service, an Economist with Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, United States Senate, and a First Lieutenant in the United States Army.

His many honors and awards include the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, Fellowship and presidency of the Econometric Society, fellow of the American Statistical Association,  the American Agricultural Economics Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal of the Indian Econometric Society, and honorary doctors degrees from the Universities of Mannheim and Geneva. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

He has delivered the following special lectures: the Henry Schultz Lecture, Second World Congress of the Econometric Society; the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 50th Anniversary Lecture, AAEA, and the Frederick V. Waugh Memorial Lecture, Inaugural Lecture, AAEA. He is the recipient of awards for research excellence and the Wilson H. Elkins Professorship at the University of Maryland.