Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
August 29-30, 2005
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Roger Conway
Roger Conway became the Director of what is now called the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses (OEPNU) in 1990. As the director, he has led many interagency and interdepartmental efforts, presented results of special analysis and technical information and represented policy positions of the department on a variety of sensitive issues. He has served as the department representative for such activities as the Department of Energy’s National Energy Strategy, the Department of Energy's Oil and Gas Initiative, and the White House Bioenergy Initiative. For his efforts as a group leader, Roger was awarded the department's highest honor in 1993, the Distinguished Service Award for "Innovative interagency coordination to develop and implement the Secretary’s initiative to enhance USDA's biofuels activities."
In 1978 Conway joined the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture as an Agricultural Economist specializing in commodity marketing. He spent a year in 1985 working with the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the US Department of Commerce as a Econometrician. Conway then returned to the ERS to become the Section Leader of the Productivity and Public Policy Section in the Resources and Technology Division. In that capacity, he led program initiatives to redesign the current USDA productivity indices, introduce important recent advances in agricultural production economics into the staff analysis and policy making process, and evaluate sustainable agricultural production practices. For his efforts with ERS, he has received four ERS Administrator Special Merit Awards.
Conway has shown a variety of research interests duly indicated by the breadth of topics covered by his numerous publications and professional presentations. Topics have included global warming, international trade, commodity policy, agricultural investment and macroeconomic policy among others. He has published well over 20 refereed journal articles in such journals as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Econometric Reviews.
Conway is a native of Virginia and received his B.A. degree in Economics at The George Washington University, his M.A. in Economics at George Mason University and his Ph.D. in Economics at The George Washington University.
