Institution/Organization: University of Tennessee

Email Address: aaron.smith@utk.edu

Committee(s): Collaborator

S. Aaron Smith is an Associate Professor and Associate Director, University of Tennessee Center of Farm Management. University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Tennessee. He earned both his Master and PhD degrees at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville Arkansas. His applied research and Extension program focuses on agricultural marketing, risk management, and domestic farm policy. His recent research focuses on the economics of climate smart agricultural commodities and carbon trading systems. He has published 25 peer reviewed journal articles and obtained over $45 million in grant funding as a PI or co-PI. His work has been cited by popular press outlets such as Farm Press, Bloomberg, and NPR. In 2022 he received the Early Career Contributions to Public Policy Award by the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics. The award specifically honors early-career food, agricultural and resource economists who generate science- based, policy-relevant knowledge and actively seek to make that knowledge available in a form accessible to public policy decision-makers at the federal, state and/or local levels.