Bruce Babcock is a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development at Iowa State University. Babcock's research interests include understanding agricultural commodity markets, the impacts of biofuels on U.S. and world agriculture, the development of innovative risk management strategies for farmers, and the analysis of agricultural and trade policies. Babcock is originally from Southern California. He received his BS in economics of resource use and his MS in agricultural economics from the University of California at Davis, and his PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley.                                                  

Brian Jennings is the executive vice president of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE).  He manages legislative, market development, public relations and advocacy strategies on behalf of the nearly 2000 ethanol producers, farm and commodity groups, businesses, and individuals that comprise ACE’s grassroots coalition of ethanol supporters.  Jennings has played a role in U.S. agricultural and energy policy issues for more than 10 years, including service on Capitol Hill as a legislative advisor to U.S. Senator Tim Johnson and as a lobbyist with the South Dakota Farmers Union.  He has presented testimony to Congress, federal government agencies, and state legislatures, and has represented the U.S. ethanol industry before major newspaper editorial boards and national television and radio media.  Jennings grew up on a cattle ranch and grain farm that his family has owned and operated for more than 100 years, and he is a graduate of South Dakota State University.  Jennings and his wife, Sarah, have two children.