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OECD Analysis of Agricultural Policies Presentation: Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD Ken Ash, Deputy-Director, OECD Directorate for Trade and Agriculture Discussant: Joseph W. Glauber, USTR Special Doha Agricultural Envoy

Event Description:

Secretary-General Gurría and Deputy-Director Ken Ash present the latest OECD analysis of farm policies in major agricultural economies around the world, outline recent commodity market developments, and highlight actions that governments can take to improve the domestic performance of their policies while at the same time reducing global trade tensions.

Biographies:

Angel Gurría took up the post of Secretary-General of the OECD on 1 June 2006 following a distinguished career in Mexico's public service, including two ministerial posts. As minister of foreign affairs from December 1994 to January 1998, he made dialogue and consensus-building one of the hallmarks of his approach to global issues. As Mexico’s minister of finance and public credit from January 1998 to December 2000, he steered Mexico’s economy through a change of Administration without a repetition of the currency crises that had dogged previous such changes.

Ken Ash, Deputy Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, joined the OECD in April 1999. Before joining the OECD Ken was the Director General, Economic and Policy Analysis at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada. Ken's early work experience was in the private sector, and he has worked at various levels of government, in the agriculture and food policy area, since 1978.

Joseph Glauber was appointed to his current position of USTR Special Doha Agricultural Envoy in May 2007. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 1992. In addition to his work in the Doha negotiations, he served as economic adviser at the so-called Blair House agreements leading to the completion of the Uruguay Round negotiations. He is the author of numerous studies on crop insurance, disaster policy and U.S. farm policy. Prior to his current position, he was senior staff economist for agriculture, natural resources and trade at the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1991 to 1992 and from 1984 to 1991, served as economist at the Economic Research Service, USDA.