Thomas Hertel, a Distinguished Professor from Purdue University, will present the 25th J.W. Fanning Lecture on Nov. 13 at 10:30 a.m. in Rooms K/L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. Hertel’s lecture is entitled “Global Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels.”
Hertel is the founder and executive director of the Global Trade Analysis Project, which maintains a global economic database and an applied general equilibrium modeling framework that are documented in the book, Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications.
He has been a visiting scholar with the Trade Research Group of the World Bank and coordinated a project on the poverty impacts of a prospective WTO agreement under the Doha Development Agenda.
Advance registration is required. Contact Audrey Hudson, ah1@uga.edu or (706) 542-0763, to register.