Politics, Policy and the Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution

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Lecture by Dan Glickman on Politics, policy and the agricultural biotechnology revolution

Daniel R. Glickman is Director of the Institute of Politics. He has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, including 18 years in the United States House of Representatives, where he served as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In 1995, President Clinton named Glickman Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture. After leaving the Cabinet in January 2001, Glickman became a partner in the public law and policy practice group of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, in Washington, where he advised clients on matters ranging from food and agriculture to biotechnology and international trade. He serves on the boards of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; the Communities in Schools; America's Second Harvest; the Food Research and Action Center; the RFK Memorial Foundation; and the Farm Foundation. He is chair of the George Washington University Global Advisory Board, chair of the Global Nutrition Institute, and co-chair of the U.S. Consensus Council. He has a BA in history from the University of Michigan and a JD from George Washington University.

*Note that this event is presented in conjunction with the Kennedy School of Government course, PED-118: Global Governance of Biotechnology.