About me

I build the evidence and the open-source tools behind the U.S. farm safety net.

I am a Senior Research Economist and Program Leader at the Agricultural Risk Policy Center (ARPC), North Dakota State University, and an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of agricultural risk management and U.S. farm policy. American-Ghanaian, born and raised in Accra, Ghana.

Before joining ARPC, I was a Research Agricultural Economist at the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS). I earned my Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Kansas State University (2021), an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arkansas, and a B.S. in Agriculture (Agribusiness) from the University of Ghana.

What I work on

Farm safety net & risk policy: the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP), Price Loss Coverage and Agriculture Risk Coverage (PLC/ARC), prevented planting, and the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Open-source farm-policy tools: an open U.S. farm-policy simulator and a family of R packages for crop-insurance simulation, calibration, demand estimation, and cost benchmarking.
Agricultural development in Ghana: productivity, technology adoption, impact evaluation, markets, poverty, and gender.

I work primarily in R and Stata, and I am always open to new research directions and to collaborating with others who share these interests.