Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
August 29-30, 2005
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Marvin Duncan
Marvin Duncan is a senior agricultural economist in the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, within the Office of the Chief Economist, in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Duncan primarily works in the area of biobased products, where he has been involved in implementing Section 9002 of the 2002 Farm Bill. That section provides for preferred procurement of biobased products by Federal agencies. He also monitors the U. S. electric utility industry and the restructuring underway in that industry.
Duncan previously has held research and management positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City where he was a Vice President and Economist. At the Farm Credit Administration, he has served as the Senior Deputy Governor and Chief Operating Officer and, later, a Member of the Presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed Farm Credit Administration Board, Acting Chairman of that Board, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation. He also has been a professor and department chairman at a land grant university, and manager of a grain and livestock farm. Duncan holds a B.S. degree in agronomy and an M.S. degree in agricultural economics from North Dakota State University, and a Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from Iowa State University.
