Konstantinos Giannakas, Ph.D

Dr. Konstantinos Giannakas is the Harold W. Eberhard Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Giannakas received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1998. He has been an expert consultant on domestic support for the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an affiliated fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and a visiting professor at: the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands; the Department of Economics, Politics, and Law at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, Austria; the Faculty of Agriculture at Kobe University in Japan; and the Department of Economic and Management Sciences at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania in Greece. Dr. Giannakas has served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. His academic interests include the areas of the Industrial Organization of the Agri-Food System, Regulatory Economics and Policy Analysis, and the Economics of Innovation and Product Differentiation.