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Charles Riemenschneider is Director of the North American Liaison
Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO). He was appointed to his current position by Director-General
Jacques Diouf in December 1994. As FAO's representative in North
America, Dr. Riemenschneider coordinates FAO's activities in the
region. He represents the Organization before the national governments
of the United States and Canada, international institutions located
in North America, such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development
Bank, and nongovernmental organizations in the region. Prior to
joining FAO, Dr. Riemenschneider was Majority Staff Director of
the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
for eight years beginning January 1987. As Staff Director, Dr. Riemenschneider
supervised the Committee staff and was responsible for advising
the Chairman and other members of the Committee on legislative and
policy issues. Dr. Riemenschneider was also a Vice President in
the Global Portfolio Management Department of Chemical Bank in New
York City. He started at Chemical Bank in 1982 as Vice President
and Senior Agricultural Economist.
Dr. Riemenschneider was on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate
Budget Committee from 1978 to 1982, where he was Analyst for Agriculture
and Science and subsequently Senior Analyst for Physical Resources.
He has also served on the faculty at Michigan State University.
He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
the World Bank and to domestic and international companies in the
farm input supply, agricultural marketing, and food processing industries.
Dr. Riemenschneider has authored numerous articles in the trade
and popular press and has addressed many business and professional
groups on business and public policy issues. He was a member of
the President's Agricultural Task Force to Zaire in 1985 and was
Chairman of the Industry Committee of the American Agricultural
Economics Association. Dr. Riemenschneider holds an M.S. and Ph.D.
in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University and a B.S.
in Agricultural Economics from Rutgers University. He was born and
raised on a family dairy farm in north central Maryland.
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