April 30, 2018
Former Sen. Lugar to join roundtable discussion on global food security
Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will participate in a roundtable discussion on global food security today (April 30) from 10 to 11:15 a.m. in Pfendler Hall, Deans Auditorium (Room 241).
All faculty, staff and students are invited.
Karen Plaut, interim dean of the College of Agriculture, will host the discussion. Other panelists are Sylvie Brouder, professor of agronomy; Gary Burniske, managing director of the Purdue Center for Global Food Security; Indrajeet Chaubey, professor of agricultural and biological engineering; Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Agronomy and 2009 World Food Prize laureate; Thomas Hertel, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics and founder and executive director of the Global Trade Analysis Project; and John Lumkes, professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
From 1977 to 2013, Lugar represented Indiana in the U.S. Senate, where he advanced the issue of global food security on the nation’s foreign policy agenda. He currently serves as president of The Lugar Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization focusing on global food security, WMD nonproliferation, aid effectiveness and bipartisan governance.