What’s on our plates tonight?
What will we eat ten years from now?
Who decides?
A conversation with Sophia Murphy on food and agriculture policy in Minnesota, the United States, and globally.
Join us for a lunchtime seminar with Sophia Murphy, Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a think tank engaged at the intersections of agriculture, trade, and climate. Sophia will address the work of IATP, followed by a moderated conversation Professor Bonnie Keeler, co-director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy. They will dive deeper into IATP’s work and the future of food, agriculture, and policy in Minnesota, the US, and globally.
STEP Seminars are free and open to everyone. A light lunch will be available for registrants - RSVP Here.
About the Speaker:
Sophia Murphy is the Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a policy and advocacy organization based in Minneapolis, with a two-person office in Washington, D.C. and another in Berlin. She has enjoyed a thirty-year career in international development, food security and trade policy, working for non-profits, the United Nations and, as a self-employed consultant. She served two consecutive terms as a member of the steering committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security.
Sophia has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and an MSc from the London School of Economics in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries. In 2021, she was awarded a PhD in Resource Management, Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia. She has lived and worked in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, India, Australia, Canada and the United States.