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International Support Program Staff
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William Motes - Chief Economist.
Dr. Motes is co-executive manager of the Informa Economics
Washington, D.C., office, where his primary responsibilities include
client consulting for international commercial clients and
development projects. Formerly, he was a principal member of
Economic Perspectives, Inc. and served as director of policy
analysis for the Secretary of Agriculture (1979-81). Dr. Motes was
associate director of USDA's Budget and Program Evaluation Office
and also was legislative assistant for agriculture for US Senator
Dick Clark. He holds degrees in agricultural economics from Kansas
State University and received his doctorate in agricultural
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Mark Jekanowski - Senior Vice President.
Dr. Jekanowski is manager of Informa's Washington, D.C., office and is primarily responsible for
economic analyses and agricultural policy research. Prior to joining
the company, Dr. Jekanowski was an agricultural economist in the
Food Markets Branch of USDA’s Economic Research Service where his
research focused on the changing structure of the food manufacturing
and retailing industries as well as trends in consumer demand. Dr.
Jekanowski was raised on a family owned tobacco and vegetable farm
in Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in resource
economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his
master’s and doctorate degrees in agricultural economics from Purdue
University. |
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Numerous other staff with expertise in a
wide range of export-related issues |
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Joe Somers - Senior Consultant.
Mr. Somers is responsible for economic analyses and agricultural
policy consultant work out of the Informa Economics Washington,
D.C., office. He came to the company with 27+ years’ experience with
USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service as a foreign service officer and
as a private sector consultant. While at FAS, he served in Brazil
and Argentina and extensively traveled on FAS overseas fact-finding
trips. In Washington, D.C., he supervised and conducted world
supply/demand and trade policy analyses for a wide range of
commodities and managed publication of several analytic circulars.
Most recently, he was director of research and marketing for the GIC
Group, Alexandria, Virginia, where he was responsible for business
development and economic and market analyses. He received his
bachelor’s degree in political science from Northeastern University,
Boston, and master’s in agricultural economics from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
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Strategic partnerships:
Alan J. Webb - Economics
Consultant. Dr. Alan Webb has been engaged in a
number of agricultural consulting projects including market
evaluation studies for the National Renderer's Association, US
Potato Growers, and the American Soybean Association, as well as
other assessments for the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Webb has
over twenty-five years of professional experience in commodity
analysis, economic research, university teaching,
and agricultural situation outlook in various capacities. He
served as Senior Economist for Asia with USDA from 1980 to 1993,
where he analyzed issues related to U.S. trade with Pacific Rim
countries.
He was a visiting professor with the
University of Arkansas in 1993-94 before going to Malaysia in
July 1994 as Team Leader for an Asian Development Bank technical
assistance project to the Economic Planning Unit, Prime
Minister's Department. In 1996 Dr. Webb worked as a consultant
on forecasting and training projects in Indonesia and China. He
took a two-year appointment with the Faculty of Economics and
Management at Universiti Putra Malaysia where he taught courses
in agribusiness and international trade. Webb holds a BA degree
in International Relations from American University, an MA in
Economics from the University of Arkansas and a PhD in
Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University.
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Extensive contacts and alliances with
individuals and firms that have specific foreign market and product
knowledge. |
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