Dr. Edward J. Balistreri became the Duane Acklie College of Business Yeutter Institute Chair at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2020. The Acklie Chair resides in the Department of Economics and serves as a core faculty member of the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance. Professor Balistreri has contributed to climate and trade-policy debates as an academic, a research economist at the United States International Trade Commission, and as a consultant.  This experience gives him a unique and informed perspective as both an educator and researcher. He has considerable expertise working with legal teams in the analysis of trade agreements and trade disputes, including a decomposition of policy impacts for US states, and with a focus on agricultural and energy products.  Prior to joining the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Balistreri held academic positions at Iowa State University and the Colorado School of Mines.  Balistreri earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Arizona State University.

Dr. Christoph Böhringer is Professor of Economic Policy at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. After his graduation as an industrial engineer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, he received a doctorate in economics from the University of Stuttgart in 1995, where he became head of the Energy Economics section at the Institute for Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy (IER). From 1999 to 2006, he led the department Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. In 2002, he qualified as a professor in economics at the University of Regensburg and in 2004 became professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg. In early 2007, he moved from Heidelberg to Oldenburg, where he holds the chair of Economic Policy. He is a research professor at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim), a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE, ETH Zürich), and a Research Network Fellow at the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo, München). His research activities focus on the economic impact assessment of regulation, especially in the field of environmental, energy, and climate policy. He is a world-leading expert in applied general equilibrium modeling, a powerful research method to quantify the economy-wide impacts of policy interference. His scientific findings are covered by more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in internationally renowned journals. He is advising governments and academic think tanks around the world on the design of regulatory policies in energy, climate, and trade.

Dr. Casiano Manrique is Associate Professor in the department of Applied Economic Analysis at the University of Las Palmas de G.C. In the last years his research has concentrated on optimization methods for the adjustment and updating of Social Accounting Matrices and for simulations with Enterprise Input-Outpur models, participating in various International Conferences in the field and publishing in various international journals. His more recent research activities focus on the relationship between trade and maritime transport. In this field, besides publishing in the form of articles, he has participated in projects with international organizations like the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank.