BRUCE A. MCCARL (TAMU) is University Distinguished Professor, Presidential Impact Fellow, Regents Professor, Senior AgriLife Research Fellow and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M.  Dr. McCarl has been at Texas A&M since 1985 and was previously at Oregon State and Purdue. He earned a B.S. in Business Statistics from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in Management Science from Pennsylvania State University.  He works on economic implications of biofuels, global climate change and greenhouse gas emission reduction, as well as forestry and agricultural policy design, mathematical programming and risk analysis. He is the author of 287 journal articles and more than 400 other papers and presentations.  He has been involved with over $82 million in sponsored research. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association plus a fellow of both the Western and Southern Agricultural Economics Associations. He was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was co recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.