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In 2017, Dr. Seth Meyer served as the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) chairman. In January, he will return to USDA to assume the position of chief economist from Robert Johansson. Dr. Seth Meyer to leave his role at FAPRI and return to USDA to assume chief economist position.
USDA Chief Economist Robert Johansson will be leaving USDA to become associate director of economics and policy analysis for the American Sugar Alliance at the end of January. Dr. Seth Meyer will return to USDA to be the new chief economist.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue says during his tenure, Rob has been an upstanding public servant. Specifically, he helped set up and serve as acting deputy undersecretary for the Farm Production and Conservation mission area early in this Administration in 2017. As chief economist, he is responsible for the department s agricultural forecasts and projections and for advising the Secretary on economic imp
2. USDA’s Chief Economist Leaves Office U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Monday announced that USDA’s Chief Economist, Robert Johansson, will be leaving USDA to become associate director of economics and policy analysis for the American Sugar Alliance at the end of January. Additionally, the secretary announced Seth Meyer will return to USDA to be the new chief economist, according to a USDA press release. “There is no doubt that I as well as the whole USDA family will miss Rob’s experience, preparedness, and direct economic analyses,” said Secretary Perdue in the press statement. “This is a challenging time for the food and agricultural sector. I’m quite honored to be asked to rejoin USDA as chief economist. I look forward to serving the American public and USDA’s many stakeholders and constituencies,” said Meyer in the USDA press release.
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that USDA Chief Economist Robert Johansson will leave USDA at the end of January to become associate director of economics and policy analysis for the American Sugar Alliance, and that Seth Meyer has been hired as the new chief economist.
In the announcement, Perdue called Johansson “an upstanding public servant,” and noted that he had served as acting deputy undersecretary for farm production and conservation early in the Trump administration
Johansson said, “It has been a real honor to have spent more than two decades in public service, working for the Peace Corps, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Council of Economic Advisers”