Scholars and Executives
AFBI Scholars are existing faculty members and researchers of the University of Saskatchewan who spend a large part of their research time studying issues that affect the future of the food & agribusiness sector, where appropriate leading/collaborating with a team of researchers. Their duties include the development and implementation of research into the innovation and commercialization of new value-added food and bioproducts. In addition, each AFBI Scholar teaches undergraduate students and is actively engaged in graduate student supervision. AFBI Executives provide input into establishing research objectives and as a conduit for dissemination of research results.
AFBI Scholars
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Bill Brown | Professor and Head of the department | bill.brown@usask.ca | (306) 966-4011 |
![]() Bill Brown Bill BrownProfessor and Head of the department About BillBill Brown is a Professor of Farm and Agribusiness Management, with the Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics Department of the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a Scholar with the Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Saskatchewan. During Bill’s career he has published over 25 refereed articles in such journals as the Journal of the International Farm Management Association, The Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,Agricultural Systems, Journal of Agribusiness, The International Food and Agribusiness Review, and the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. He has also produced numerous technical and outreach reports dealing with farm and agribusiness management issues. Professor Brown’s enjoys working with students and has taught numerous courses over the years in Farm Business Management and Farm and Agribusiness Planning at both the undergraduate level and at the MBA program at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. Bill has supervised undergraduate students, who work in groups of three to five, in the preparation and presentation of over 120 business plans for clients from throughout Saskatchewan and Western Canada. Bill has invited the business community to submit their ideas for business plans and to share students’ expenses with the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan. Bill has also supervised or been on the research committees of over 30 graduate students at the MSc level. Bill has had the opportunity to present at numerous conferences and outreach programs bringing forward agricultural issues throughout Saskatchewan, other parts of Canada, and the world. He has been involved in agribusiness training and development projects in China, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Guatemala, Mongolia and Mexico. Professor Brown has also been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a MSc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Alberta and a BSA from the University of Manitoba. Selected Publications
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David Natcher | Associate Professor and Director, Indigenous Land Management Institute | david.natcher@usask.ca | (306) 966 8413 |
![]() David Natcher David NatcherAssociate Professor and Director, Indigenous Land Management Institute Selected Publications
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David Zhang | Associate Professor | zhang@edwards.usask.ca | (306) 966-5920 |
![]() David Zhang David ZhangAssociate Professor About DavidDavid Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. His main research interests are in the areas of marketing strategy and social entrepreneurship. His current research projects include the investigation of marketing and management strategies employed by Saskatchewan farmers in a rapidly changing environment, and the development strategies for the rural and northern regions in Saskatchewan. Selected Publications
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Eric Micheels | Assistant Professor | eric.micheels@usask.ca | (306) 966-8411 |
![]() Eric Micheels Eric MicheelsAssistant Professor About EricEric Micheels is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics, University of Saskatchewan. Eric holds an undergraduate degree in agribusiness (B.S.A) from University of Wisconsin. He received his M.S and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from University of Illinois. His research interests lie at the intersection of agribusiness management and agricultural finance. Currently, Eric is interested in how dynamic capabilities affect managerial decision making and firm performance for agribusiness firms. Selected PublicationsAccepted
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Hayley Hesseln | Associate Professor | hayley.hesseln@usask.ca | (306) 966-8407 |
![]() Hayley Hesseln Hayley HesselnAssociate Professor Selected Publications
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James Nolan | Professor | james.nolan@usask.ca | (306) 966-8412 |
![]() James Nolan James NolanProfessor About JamesJames has been with the Department since 1998. As well as being actively involved in transportation and agricultural policy issues at the federal and provincial level in Canada, James continues to publish in the field of transportation economics and policy, including studies of the trucking industry, airlines and freight rail. Currently, James is devoting much of his research effort to computational economic modeling as applied to agriculture and land use. Recently, he was part of a small social science research team awarded a CFI grant to construct a new experimental economics lab on campus that will open in the Fall of 2012. James is also a former co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and is currently an associate member of the freight transportation committee for the Transportation Research Board in the U.S. Selected Publications
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Jill Hobbs | Professor | jill.hobbs@usask.ca | (306) 966-2445 |
![]() Jill Hobbs Jill HobbsProfessor Selected Publications
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Ken Belcher | Professor | ken.belcher@usask.ca | (306) 966-4019 |
![]() Ken Belcher Ken BelcherProfessor About KenDr. Ken Belcher is a professor with a joint appointment in the department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics and the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He holds an undergraduate degree in agriculture (B.S.A), and a Masters in natural resource management (M.N.R.M) both from the University of Manitoba, and received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Saskatchewan. His research interests are in the area of environmental, resource and ecological economics and has primarily focused on the interactions between economic systems (primarily agricultural systems) and the environment. Recent research activities have examined environmental and agri-environmental policy, ecosystem services management and policy, natural capital, trade and the environment, climate change and agricultural sustainability. Belcher also teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of environmental and natural resource policy, resource and ecological economics and also teaches the natural resource management class in the Indigenous Peoples Resource Management Program. Belcher is the 2011 recipient of the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Teaching Award. Selected Publications
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Lana Awada | Professional Research Associate | lana.awada@usask.ca | (306) 966 4037 |
![]() Lana Awada Lana AwadaProfessional Research Associate | |||
Murray Fulton | Professor | murray.fulton@usask.ca | (306) 966-8507 |
![]() Murray Fulton Murray FultonProfessor Selected Publications
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Peter Slade | Assistant Professor | peter.slade@usask.ca | (306) 966 4038 |
![]() Peter Slade Peter SladeAssistant Professor About PeterPeter Slade joined the Department of BPBE on July 1, 2015 as the Canadian Canola Growers Chair in Agricultural Policy. Originally from Newfoundland, Peter completed his MSc and PhD at the University of Guelph. Peter's current research lies at the intersection of agricultural markets and agricultural policy. | |||
Richard Gray | Professor | richard.gray@usask.ca | (306) 966-4026 |
![]() Richard Gray Richard GrayProfessor Selected Publications
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Richard Schoney | Professor Emeritus | dick.schoney@usask.ca | |
Stuart Smyth | Assistant Professor | stuart.smyth@usask.ca | (306) 966-2929 |
![]() Stuart Smyth Stuart SmythAssistant Professor About StuartDr. Stuart Smyth’s research focuses on innovation and agriculture and the resulting impacts. He was part of a group of academics that received $5.4 million in funding over 5 years in 2009 from Genome Canada to examine the genomic, economic, environmental, ethical, legal and social (GE³LS) issues pertaining to bioproducts and biofuels. Recent publications in 2014 include: co-editor with Peter Phillips (U Sask) and David Castle (U Victoria) of the Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development, a 51 chapter book published by Edward Elgar and co-editor with Jose Falck-Zepeda (IFPRI) and Karinne Ludlow (Monash U, Melbourne, Aust.) of Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation, published by Springer. Selected Publications
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Suren Kulshreshtha | Professor | suren.kulshreshtha@usask.ca | (306) 966-4014 |
![]() Suren Kulshreshtha Suren KulshreshthaProfessor About SurenSuren Kulshreshtha is currently a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, a position he has held for the past 44 years. He received his first degrees from Agra University, India, and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Manitoba. His major areas of research include climate change, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, irrigation and related water resource economics, and drought impact assessments. He teaches quantitative methods, including econometrics. He has also participated in several overseas projects through the Canadian International Development Agency, and through the United Nations Environmental Program. Selected Publications
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William Kerr | Professor | william.kerr@usask.ca | (306) 966-4022 |
![]() William Kerr William KerrProfessor About WilliamWilliam A. Kerr is currently a University Distinguished Chair at the University of Saskatchewan. From 1999 to 2010 he was the Van Vliet Chair Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He was at the University of Calgary from 1980 to 1999 and Professor of Economics from 1989. He has a BA in International Relations from UBC, an MA in Economics (Trade and Development) from Simon Fraser University and a PhD in Economics and Agricultural Economics from UBC. The focus of his research has been on international trade and international commercial policy. He has provided advice on trade policy negotiating strategies for the WTO, NAFTA, and other regional trade associations. He has worked on trade disputes between the EU and Canada and the US and Canada. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, The InterAmerican Development Bank, the EU, the British government, the Federal and a number of Provincial governments in Canada as well as private sector companies and organizations. He has international experience in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Poland, Slovakia, New Zealand, China, the Philippines, Mexico, Japan, Russia, the US and a number of other countries. He has over 300 academic publications including 20 books. Recent titles include: the reference work Handbook on International Trade Policy; Conflict Chaos and Confusion – The Crisis in the International Trading System and; Economic Development Through Regional Trade. He is a former editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and the current editor of The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. Selected Publications
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AFBI Executives
Name | Position | Telephone | |
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Bill Brown | Professor and Head of the department | bill.brown@usask.ca | (306) 966-4011 |
![]() Bill Brown Bill BrownProfessor and Head of the department About BillBill Brown is a Professor of Farm and Agribusiness Management, with the Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics Department of the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a Scholar with the Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Saskatchewan. During Bill’s career he has published over 25 refereed articles in such journals as the Journal of the International Farm Management Association, The Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,Agricultural Systems, Journal of Agribusiness, The International Food and Agribusiness Review, and the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. He has also produced numerous technical and outreach reports dealing with farm and agribusiness management issues. Professor Brown’s enjoys working with students and has taught numerous courses over the years in Farm Business Management and Farm and Agribusiness Planning at both the undergraduate level and at the MBA program at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. Bill has supervised undergraduate students, who work in groups of three to five, in the preparation and presentation of over 120 business plans for clients from throughout Saskatchewan and Western Canada. Bill has invited the business community to submit their ideas for business plans and to share students’ expenses with the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan. Bill has also supervised or been on the research committees of over 30 graduate students at the MSc level. Bill has had the opportunity to present at numerous conferences and outreach programs bringing forward agricultural issues throughout Saskatchewan, other parts of Canada, and the world. He has been involved in agribusiness training and development projects in China, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Guatemala, Mongolia and Mexico. Professor Brown has also been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a MSc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Alberta and a BSA from the University of Manitoba. Selected Publications
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David Zhang | Associate Professor | zhang@edwards.usask.ca | (306) 966-5920 |
![]() David Zhang David ZhangAssociate Professor About DavidDavid Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. His main research interests are in the areas of marketing strategy and social entrepreneurship. His current research projects include the investigation of marketing and management strategies employed by Saskatchewan farmers in a rapidly changing environment, and the development strategies for the rural and northern regions in Saskatchewan. Selected Publications
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Jonathan Greuel | Executive Director, Policy Branch | jonathan.greuel2@gov.sk.ca | (306) 787-5834 |
Jonathan GreuelExecutive Director, Policy Branch |