Julie Callahan, chief agricultural negotiator for the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, will provide the opening keynote remarks for an April 21 symposium sponsored by the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance. The symposium will feature multiple panel discussions on trade issues, including ag-related topics.
Callahan has held senior agriculture-focused positions at USTR for the past nine years and previously was a leader in the Office of International Programs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She will be presenting her keynote, titled “An Update on Agricultural Trade Priorities,” virtually.
The fifth biennial CME Group Foundation Symposium of the Yeutter Institute will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Nebraska East Union’s Great Plains Room and center on the theme, “Toward A New International Trading System.” The event is free and open to the public and includes lunch.
Online registration is available for in-person attendance. The event also will be livestreamed through the Yeutter Institute’s website, https://yeutter-institute.unl.edu.
Callahan served as the assistant U.S. trade representative for agricultural affairs and commodity policy during 2020-2025, where she led the USTR Agriculture Office in trade negotiations and the development and coordination of U.S. agricultural trade policy. She previously served as a deputy assistant U.S. trade representative and senior director in the USTR Agriculture Office, focusing on strategic engagement in United Nations organizations, bilateral and regional sanitary and phytosanitary issues, and agriculture-related technical barriers to trade.
The April 21 symposium is made possible by support from the CME Group Foundation.
The Yeutter institute is named after Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017), a Eustis, Nebraska, native who served as the U.S. secretary of agriculture and the U.S. trade representative. Yeutter earned three degrees from UNL: a bachelor’s of science; a law degree; and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics.
