Scott H. Irwin

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Scott H. Irwin
File:Scott H. Irwin.jpg
Nationality	United States
Academic career
Field	Commodity markets, Agricultural Risk Management, and Speculation
Institution	University of Illinois
Alma mater	Purdue University (Ph.D.) Iowa State University (B.S.)
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Scott H. Irwin is the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marking and Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Career

Irwin earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business from Iowa State University in 1980 and both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Purdue University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He currently teaches courses on commodity price analysis and futures and options market research. His lifelong fascination with commodity markets started as a young boy tagging along with his father to check the latest prices from ‘Chicago’ at the local grain elevator.

Irwin's specific research interests include price analysis and forecasting, forecast evaluation, performance of market advisory services, agricultural risk management, commodity market efficiency, and the behavior and role of speculators in commodity markets.

Main contributions

Irwin is a national and international leader in the field of agricultural economics. His research on agricultural markets is widely-cited by other academic researchers and is in high demand among market participants, policymakers, and the media. One of his paper was selected as the "Top 25 Paper Published in the First 25Years of the Journal of Economic Surveys".

Irwin is best known for his work on the impact of speculation in commodity markets. He has been an active participant in the world-wide debate about the market impact of financial index investment in commodity markets, popularly known as “financialization.” Irwin has published numerous academic articles on the subject and has been called upon to provide testimony before the U.S. Congress, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD, and the CFTC, as well as publishing op-ed articles in the New York Times and Washington Times. He has been invited to make presentations to numerous international organizations such as the WTO, FAO, World Bank, International Energy Agency, and International Institute of Finance.

Other contributions

Irwin is also a well-known innovator in the development of agricultural extension programs that have helped farmers in Illinois, the U.S. and throughout the world make informed production, marketing, and financial decisions.

• His leadership and vision have been the driving force behind the award-winning farmdoc project at the University of Illinois since its inception in 1999.

• He recently led the development of farmdoc daily, which has the unprecedented and ambitious goal of publishing one original research-based article each day.

Awards

• 2014, AAEA Distinguished Group Extension Program Award

• 2013, AAEA Fellow

• 2002, AAEA Distinguished Group Extension Program Award

• Paul A. Funk Recognition Award and the Team Award (three times) from the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

External links

• Scott H. Irwin Homepage [1]
• Scott H. Irwin's home page at the University of Illinois
• Scott H. Irwin publications indexed by Google Scholar
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