Participants
Rob King

Rob King
Professor and Department Head, Department of Applied Economics
UMN
St. Paul, USA

Robert P. King is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on management issues facing food retailers, farmer cooperatives, and farmers and on the impacts new information technologies are having on the food system. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on managerial economics and quantitative methods. Professor King has worked internationally in Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, and he currently serves on the Editorial Council of the Review of Agricultural Economics.