Kathleen Ann Merrigan

Background

Merrigan, Kathleen Ann was born in 1959.

Education

Bachelor in Political Science & English, Williams College, 1982. Master of Arts in Public Affairs, Lyndon Johnson School Public Affairs, University Texas, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Planning & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.

Career

Manager John Olver for State Senate Campaign, 1982. Research analyst Massachusetts Joint Committee on Taxation, 1983. Chief of staff to Senator John Olver Massachusetts State Senate, 1983—1985.

Special assistant regulatory division Texas Department Agricultural, 1986—1987. Staff member United States Senate Agricultural, Nutrition, & Forestry Committee, 1987—1992. Senior analyst Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agricultural, 1994—1999.

Administrator Agricultural Marketing Services United States Department of Agriculture, 1999—2001. Assistant professor Friedman School Nutrition Science, Tufts University, Boston, 2001—2009, director Agricultural Food & Environment Program, 2001—2009. Deputy secretary United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, since 2009.

Expert consultant Food Agricultural Organization United Nations, 1998, 2008. Research assistant Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992—1993, 1993—1994, instructor, 1993. Member United States Department of Agriculture National Organic Standards Board, 1995—1999, United States Environmental Protection Agency Food Safety Advisory Committee, 1996—1998, United States Department of Agriculture Facilities Reform Commission, 1997—1999.

Board directors Commodity Credit Corporation, since 2010.

Achievements

• Kathleen Ann Merrigan has been listed as a noteworthy federal agency administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Organic Farming Research Foundation, 1992—1995, The Organic Center, since 2004. Member steering committee National Campaign for Sustainable Agricultural Steering Committee, 1994—1999, Kellogg Foundation for Integrated Food & Farming Systems Network, 1996—1998. Member standards committee Human Farm Animal Care, 2003—2007.

Member of American Academy for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science).