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Peter Goldsmith, PhD

Director
Soybean Innovation Lab
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois, United States

Dr. Goldsmith graduated in 1995 from the Ohio State University with a PhD in Agricultural Economics. From 1995-1999 he worked as an Assistant Professor, McGill University in Montreal and is currently a Professor of Agribusiness Management in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois. In addition to his PhD, Dr. Goldsmith has received an MBA in Finance, and undergraduate degrees in Dairy Science and Political Science. He is a leading scholar within the field of Agribusiness Management and is a Fellow of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. In addition to teaching Food Marketing, Dr. Goldsmith developed the world’s first course on agrifood supply chain management and blockchain applications. His research interest is global agro-industrial marketing and strategy specifically looking at intellectual property management, agricultural development, biotechnology, and supply chain management within soybean-livestock-energy value chains. Dr. Goldsmith, having worked extensively in Mato Grosso, Brazil and Argentina, is one of the world’s leading soybean economists with unique expertise in low latitude soybean production and agro-industrial development. Dr. Goldsmith currently serves as the Director and Principal Investigator of USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research, a $30m research enterprise that operates in 27 countries. In 2019, Dr. Goldsmith received the Faculty Award for Global Impact from the College of ACES at the University of Illinois and recently, the University of Illinois presented Dr. Goldsmith with the Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement. In 2021, Dr. Goldsmith received a $6m award to build the Innovation to Impact (i2i) Platform to assist USAID researchers achieve greater development impacts from their innovations. Before embarking on a career in academia, Dr. Goldsmith worked in the dairy industry as the assistant general manager of a cooperative and as a herdsman, and as a large animal specialist in the United States Peace Corps in South America.

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