Advancing Economics, Transforming Lives

July 2009

Graduate Alumni Updates

We’d like to hear from you!  Post your update at: http://aec.msu.edu/alumniform2.cfm

The department does not release full addresses or email addresses of alumni unless the information is specifically included in the text of an update submitted for this publication.

James W Graves (PhD 1964) writes, “After teaching Agricultural Economics 35 years at Texas Tech University and four years at Texas A&M, I retired in 2001. I am now keeping busy with volunteer work and traveling. Would like to hear from classmates if any are still around.

Wayne Winston Sharp (PhD, 1968) is working as Platinum Financial Services Advisor for Sharp, Konopaske & Associates, Ameriprise Financial, in Vienna, Virginia. 

Michel M. Fabre (MS 1974) provided an update.  After many years with big companies (General Foods, now Kraft, food business, and ONET group, industrial cleaning), Michel elected to create a company in Poland (1998). For family reasons, the outfit was closed shortly after. Now, Michel is an antique and used books dealer in the suburbs of Marseilles, southern France, in his own home, trading essentially through the net. He greets all his fellow comrades of the early '70s in Agricultural Economics and especially Dr Kelly Harrison (MS thesis advisor) and his wife.

Alfredo Cadenas (MS, 1975) is Professor of Economics, Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 

Bafotigui Sako (MS 1981) writes, “Since March of 2005, I’ve been working for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization as Head of Operations. My overall role and function are a) to assist in the development, coordination and actively support the overall cooperation between UNIDO and the Government, the academic community, the private sector and the civil society for promoting industrialization; b) assist in the development of country programs for sustainable industrial development. UNIDO assures high quality services and the mobilization of resources for financing of projects. The main focus is twofold : a) the identification and formulation of new programs and projects; b) the fund mobilization for developed programs and projects. As the key contact for all the UNIDO operational matters on the field, I monitor and provide all necessary local support to the preparation of and implementation of the organization’s technical cooperation projects, to national counterparts and focal points, to visiting experts and staff from UNIDO Headquarters and/or from other offices of UNIDO, and other partners as requested by West African Regional Bureau based in Abuja in Nigeria. I also carry out all other activities of interest to the UNIDO in its cooperation and relation with Mali as specified and guided by the Regional Bureau.

Saroj Aungsumalin (PhD, 1982) is Dean, Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University, Thailand. 

Salisu Ingawa (PhD 1983) is now the Executive Director of the National Food Reserve Agency of Nigeria.  Details at: http://www.nfraagric.org/#v

Norio Inomata (MS 1986) is now working as General Manager, Japan Securities Educational Division in Tokyo, Japan. 

June Grabemeyer (MS, 1987) is working for the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service at their offices in East Lansing, Michigan.  She writes, “I have been with NRCS since 1993 and worked in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania before returning to Michigan in 1999.  Things seem to get busier with each new farm bill.”