Independent Science and Partnership Council Senior Management

Kenneth Cassman is the Robert B. Daugherty Professor of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska. He has held positions in research agronomy in Brazil and Egypt, and at the University of California-Davis. In the early 1990s he served as head of the Agronomy, Plant Physiology, and Agroecology Division at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and then as head of the Agronomy Department at the University of Nebraska.

His research and teaching have focused on ensuring local and global food security while conserving natural resources and protecting environmental quality.

Kenneth has a PhD from the College of Tropical Agriculture, University of Hawaii, and a BS degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego. His publications on yield potential, efficient use of nitrogen, and ecological intensification of agriculture are widely cited in the scientific literature. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America. His work has been recognized by a number of national and international awards.