With a background in trade policy and trade negotiations, Daniel Whitley will provide insight into how countries can benefit from trade and how trade policy can help a country become food secure at the U.S. Grains Council’s 51st Annual Board of Delegates Meeting next week in San Francisco, Calif.

Whitley, deputy-director of Global Policy Analysis at the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), is a member of a panel being moderated by Ellen Levinson, who heads a consulting firm that specializes in government relations and international development.

The panel will focus on different components of food security, encompassing everything from domestic production to the role of trade.

At FAS, Whitley leads a team of agricultural and international economists who analyze global agricultural markets and advise senior government officials of market potential. He began his 13-year career working in trade policy and negotiating market access issues in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization. During the 2008 farm bill, he served as a senior agriculture fellow in the U.S. Senate.

For more information about the Council’s 51st Annual Board of Delegates Meeting, go to www.grains.org.