Program Faculty
Degrees
Program Faculty
Purdue instructors have substantial research records, as well as experience as consultants to corporations and government agencies.
Allan Gray
Executive Director and Professor
Allan Gray serves as executive director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business and the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management. Allan’s research interests are agribusiness management, strategic planning, decision making in uncertain environments and simulation.
Brady Brewer
Director and Associate Professor
Brady Brewer is an associate professor of agricultural economics and director of the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management at Purdue University. His research agenda includes the broader topics of agribusiness and profitability, agricultural finance, and production/supply chain issues at the farm level.
Chad Fiechter
Assistant Professor
Chad Fiechter joined Purdue University in the fall of 2023 as an assistant professor of agribusiness finance. Fiechter’s research interests include the financing of agricultural production, farm/agribusiness management, and agricultural policy. He is specifically interested in how information affects farm-level decision-making, such as the financing, producing, and marketing decisions of agricultural commodities.
Roman Keeney
Associate Professor
Roman Keeney is an associate professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. His research program explores how farm households and rural residents respond to and are impacted by changes to farm and farm-related policies. Roman has worked extensively on the interaction between U.S. domestic farm programs and international trade barriers, focusing in particular on the distribution of gains and losses across the population of U.S. farmers.