Breakout Session I
Economic Interactions of Biofuels and Agricultural Markets
Moderator: John Miranowski, Professor, Iowa State Department of Economics
John Miranowski 
John Miranowski is a professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. His areas of interest include agricultural economics and environmental and resource economics, and he has taught courses in natural resource and environmental economics, and farm management and production economics. He has developed a research program on the economics of resource use including energy, water quality, land management and conservation, and agricultural research decision making.
Miranowski served as the director of the USDA's Resources and Technology Division from 1984-1995. He developed, led, staffed, and managed a $12 million policy research and analysis program in environmental, resource, and technology economics. As the executive coordinator of the Secretary of Agriculture's Policy Coordination Council and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture (1990-1991), Miranowski worked with under and assistant secretaries and with other administrators to develop and implement cross-cutting programs on water quality, food safety, rural development, pesticide policy, and workforce diversity.
Robert Jolly
Robert Jolly, professor of economics at Iowa State University, is interested in agricultural economics and labor and human resources. He also serves as the co-leader of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative at Iowa State, and as the director of the Agricultural Credit School. In 2003, he won the Iowa State University International Service Award, and in 2001, he won the Iowa State College of Agriculture Award for Excellence in International Agriculture.
Jill Euken
Jill Euken is a 25-year veteran of the Iowa State University Extension Service and serves as Industrial Specialist for Biobased Products at Iowa State Extension/CIRAS. She coordinates university-industry research partnerships and commercialization projects. She currently coordinates industry advisory committees for several large grant projects, including Integrated Feedstock Supply Systems for Corn Stover Biomass, funded by the USDA/DOE, and Biocomplexity in the Bioeconomy: the Natural and Industrial Ecology of Biobased Products, funded by the National Science Foundation. Euken also chairs the annual Biobased Industry Outlook Conference at Iowa State.
Robert Wisner 
Robert Wisner joined the economics staff at Iowa State University as an Extension Grain Marketing specialist in 1967. In addition to his regular responsibilities at Iowa State, he served on short term foreign assignments in Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, and Argentina, as a Senior Economist with the U.S. Cost of Living Council in 1973, and as a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska Agricultural Marketing Center in 1990-1991. He has authored numerous articles on grain marketing, international trade in farm products and the grain outlook. In 1986 he served on a review committee to evaluate USDA's domestic and foreign economic outlook and statistical information programs.
Wisner has authored an annual report on world food trade and U.S. agricultural exports published by the World Food Institute and the Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center at Iowa State University. He is also co-editor and contributing editor of a book on marketing for farmers and is Professor of Economics and Extension Grain Marketing Specialist at Iowa State University. He has worked with faculty of four agricultural universities in the Czech and Slovak republics to aid agricultural sectors of those nations in developing a market economy in farm products. Dr. Wisner has received American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Extension awards for Outstanding Crop Price Forecasting, Crop Production Forecasting, and General Economic Forecasts. In 1995, He received ISU Extension's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award.