Benjamin Senauer, Ph.D.
Professor, Applied Economics
332 Classroom Office Building
1994 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
Ph: 612-625-5724 / Fax: 612-625-2729
E-mail: bsenauer@umn.edu
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
February 2008
Dr. Senauer is a Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, where he has been on the faculty since 1974. He the former Co-Director of The Food Industry Center, a position he held from January 2001 until August 2007. He also served as Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University from 1993-1999.
Raised in California, his B.A. degree with high honors in Economics is from the University of California in 1968. He did graduate training in Economics at Harvard University in 1970-71 and received his Master's Degree in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1974 from Stanford University. His primary areas of expertise are consumer behavior, food marketing, household economics, and food and nutrition policy. He has taught courses in consumption economics, food marketing, microeconomic theory, world food problems, and agricultural development.
He worked in the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. from 1978-79. During 1984-85 and again in 1999-2000, he was a visiting research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. He was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England in Spring 1990 and a visiting researcher at the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization in Geneva in the Spring of 1998, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in the Spring of 2004. Dr. Senauer has been a consultant for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Agency for International Development (US-AID). He has given over 30 lectures or seminars at universities in Europe and elsewhere. He has been involved in obtaining and/or managing five US-AID projects in Poland, Morocco and Bangladesh as well as major projects funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Ford Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and others.
Dr. Senauer has published research papers in such academic journals as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Food Policy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. In addition, he has contributed chapters to several books and has over 50 other publications. He is a co-author of the book Food Trends and the Changing Consumer published in 1991 and a co-author of Ending Hunger In Our Lifetime: Security and Globalization in 2003.
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