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Past York Lecturers
| Date | Speaker |
| Fall 2013 | Philip Martin, a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California-Davis and award-winning author who works for UN agencies around the world on labor and migration issues |
| Spring 2013 | Roger Thurow, an award-winning author, a senior fellow of Global Agriculture and Food Policy with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a fellow of the anti-poverty ONE Campaign |
| Fall 2012 | Gale Buchanan, former Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Spring 2012 | Arthur Caplan, internationally known bioethics expert who addresses such issues as GMOs and genetic cloning and the ethics of synthetic biology and biotechnology |
| Fall 2011 | Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize winner and Distinguished Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics and International Agriculture at Purdue University |
| Spring 2011 | Temple Grandin, best-selling author and professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University |
| Fall 2010 | Valentin Abe, fisheries development entrepreneur in Haiti, Time magazine hero for 2010 and Auburn alumnus |
| Spring 2010 | Fritz Haeg, artist, activist, gardener and educator |
| Fall 2009 | Fabien Cousteau, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer, son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| Fall 2008 | Doug Phillips, creator, producer and host of Alabama Public Television's award-winning and Emmy-nominated Discovering Alabama series |
| Spring 2008 | David Lambert, nationally recognized advocate to end hunger |
| Fall 2006 | James T. Morris, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme |
| Fall 2005 | Catherine A. Bertini, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme and recipient of the 2003 World Food Prize |
| Winter 2005 | James E. Horne, nationally recognized sustainable farming advocate |
| Winter 2004 | Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner, known as the father of Green Revolution |
| Fall 2003 | Joe Lewis, USDA research entomologist internationally recognized for his ground breaking work in ecologically based pest management, and Beth Lewis, veteran educator who focuses on fostering community-based schools |
| Spring 2003 | Frederick Kirschenmann, director of the Iowa State University-based Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture |
Last Updated: October 14, 2013
