2025 Market outlook workshop Day 1

On November 6 and 7 the Forum for the Future of Agriculture (ForumforAg) hosted a workshop on market outlooks and policy implications. This built on our previous event and looked at the big picture from OECD-FAO newest report covering the 2025-2034 perspective, and then dived into the outlook for arable crops and livestock plus look at the environmental footprint and policy implications, with a special focus on Europe.

Find out more about Day 2 (separate venue) by clicking here

Click on image above or here to access the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034 report

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2025 Market outlook workshop day 1 – Introduction

Lee Ann Jackson, Tassos Haniotis

2025 Market outlook workshop day 1 – Panel 1 – The big picture

Máximo Torero Cullen, Marcel Adenäuer, Tassos Haniotis, Bence Tóth, Lee Ann Jackson

2025 Market outlook workshop day 1 – Panel 2 – Arable crops

Thomas Chatzopoulos, Iliana Axiotiades, Glauco Bertoldo, Alexander Döring, Tiffanie Stephani, Lee Ann Jackson

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Marcel Adenäuer

Policy Analyst, OECD

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Marcel Adenäuer

Policy Analyst, OECD

Marcel Adenäuer is a policy analyst for the OECD. Dr. Adenäuer is specialised in computer sciences, database management and mathematical modelling. He has also been actively involved in the studies preparing the EU reform of the sugar sector. As an agricultural economist, Dr. Adenäuer has an extensive knowledge of the functioning of common market organisations in the agricultural sector.

Iliana Axiotiades

Secretary General, Coceral

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Iliana Axiotiades

Secretary General, Coceral

Iliana Axiotiades is the Secretary General of Coceral, which represents European traders in agri-commodities and agrosupply, Euromalt, which brings together the European malting industry, and Unistock, the European association of portside storekeepers of agri-bulk commodities. This involves managing the three associations and representing their interests with the European institutions, Member States and third country Permanent Representations to the EU. Iliana is also currently acting as Vice-President of the IGTC – the International Grain Trade Coalition, and Lead of the IGTC’s Plant Breeding Innovation Policy Team. Prior to her current role, Iliana spent six years with Johnson Controls where, as Director of Government & Trade Relations Europe, she worked very closely with the Power Solutions, Automotive and Building Efficiency businesses of the company to identify the policy drivers impacting their growth, and design strategies aimed at seizing the opportunities and mitigating the risks created by political decisions. In particular, she promoted European energy efficiency policies with the EU Commission, Parliament and Member States governments, and was the company Lead for the TTIP negotiations. Before joining Johnson Controls, Iliana held several positions in the agri-food sector over a 20-year period, as a consultant, at the helm of the European starch industry association, and in Cargill. She joined Cargill as Director of Government Relations for the starch and sweeteners businesses where she played an active role in anticipating changes to the sugar regime. Thereafter, she was appointed as Director for Business Development, leading an investment project in bio-ethanol, as well as a project aimed at determining the strategy for all Cargill’s food ingredient businesses in Central & Eastern Europe. More information Website – @COCERAL_EU LinkedIn – Coceral

John Baffes

Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, The World Bank

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John Baffes

Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, The World Bank

John Baffes is Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Prospects Group where he leads the World Bank’s commodity price forecasting process and oversees the management of the commodity price database. With a rich background in various units within the World Bank, including Latin America, South Asia, East Africa, Evaluation, and Research, John brings a diverse perspective to his work environment. His contributions extend beyond the confines of the World Bank, with numerous chapters and articles published in academic journals covering economic development, agricultural economics, resource economics, and applied econometrics. John also teaches an executive MBA course on Applied Econometrics for Commodity Markets. Prior to his academic pursuits, John gained invaluable experience managing a commodity trading company, solidifying his practical understanding of commodity market dynamics. John holds degrees in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece (BS), Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, U.S. (MS), and Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, U.S. (Ph.D.).

Glauco Bertoldo

Agricultural Attaché, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Brazilian Mission to the European Union

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Glauco Bertoldo

Agricultural Attaché, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Brazilian Mission to the European Union

Glauco Bertoldo is an agronomist with 25 years of experience in the field. With postgraduate degrees in fertilizer technology and data science, he has held significant roles at the Ministry of Agriculture, including head of service, Federal Superintendent, and Director of the Department for the Inspection of Products of Plant Origin, managing areas such as plant inspection, agricultural inputs, plant defense, and international surveillance. He currently serves as the Agricultural Attaché at the Brazilian Mission to the European Union in Brussels.

Internationally, he has represented Brazil as a delegate to the International Wine Organization (OIV), coordinating the working group on electronic wine certification, and as part of the Brazilian delegation to the OECD’s Fruit and Vegetables Group, the CCFICS of the Codex Alimentarius, and UN/CEFACT. He presently leads the Brazilian delegation on the ISO Data-driven Agrifood Systems Technical Committee.

Benoît Cassart

Member of European Parliament

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Benoît Cassart

Member of European Parliament

Benoît Cassart is a Belgian politician from the Mouvement Réformateur and a member of the Renew Europe Group. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the French-speaking electoral college in the 2024 European Parliament election. Before entering politics, Benoît was involved in agriculture, specifically as a cattle breeder in Havelange, Belgium. This background has influenced his perspective on rural and agricultural policies within the European Union.

Thomas Chatzopoulos

Policy Analyst, OECD

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Thomas Chatzopoulos

Policy Analyst, OECD

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Máximo Torero Cullen

Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Máximo Torero Cullen

Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He joined the Organization in January 2019 as Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social Development Department. Prior to joining FAO, he had been Executive Director at the World Bank Group since November 2016 and, before the Bank, Dr. Torero led the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His major research work lies in analyzing poverty, inequality, importance of geography and assets (private or public) in explaining poverty, and in policies oriented towards poverty alleviation based on the role played by infrastructure, institutions, and on how technological breakthroughs (or discontinuities) can improve the welfare of households and small farmers. His experience encompasses Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

Dr. Torero, a national of Peru, holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of the Pacific, Lima, Peru. He is a professor on leave at the University of the Pacific (Peru) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Bonn, Germany, and has also published in top journals (QJE, Econometric Theory, AER-Applied Microeconomics, RSTAT, Labor Economics and many other top journals).

In 2000, Dr. Torero has received the Georg Foster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, won the Award for Outstanding Research on Development given by The Global Development Network, twice, in 2000 and in 2002 and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2014.

More information
Twitter – @MaximoTorero
Website – www.maximotorero.com

Ignacio Pérez Domínguez

Economist and Senior Researcher, European Commission

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Ignacio Pérez Domínguez

Economist and Senior Researcher, European Commission

Ignacio Pérez Domínguez is an economist and senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He has more than 20 years of experience in quantitative analysis, mainly with a focus on agricultural and environmental economics. After graduating in Applied Economics from the University of Zaragoza, he completed a master's degree in Environmental Economics at Imperial College of London and PhD studies in Agricultural Economics at the University of Bonn. Before joining the European Commission, he worked for 4 years as a policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He has contributed to numerous scientific publications and presented his work in multiple forums. He is currently a member of the JRC Scientific Committee.

Alexander Döring

Secretary General, FEFAC

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Alexander Döring

Secretary General, FEFAC

Alexander Döring graduated as an Agricultural Economist at the University of Bonn (1991). He was appointed Secretary General of FEFAC in 1994. As such, he represents the compound & premix feed manufacturers at EU level. Before joining FEFAC, he worked as European Affairs Manager at the Groupement of European flour millers, GAM and Northern European Rice Miller Association, NERMA, from 1992 till 1994, and as External Analyst at the European Commission, DG Agriculture, from 1991 till 1992. He has a solid working experience with the EU institutions: participation in DG SANTE & DG AGRI Advisory & Civil Dialogue Groups, EFSA stakeholders platform, FVO seminars & training workshops on Feed Hygiene, TAIEX workshops on Feed Safety management, as well as with international institutions: Codex Alimentarius Commission (observer membership), FAO, OIE.

Joseph W. Glauber

Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Joseph W. Glauber

Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Joe Glauber is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC and until January 2024 served as interim Secretary of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS). He also holds appointments at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the American Enterprise Institute. Prior to joining IFPRI, Glauber spent over 30 years at the US Department of Agriculture, including as Chief Economist from 2008 to 2014. From 2007-2009, Glauber was the Special Doha Agricultural Envoy at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he served as chief agricultural negotiator in the Doha talks. He is the author of numerous studies on agricultural insurance, trade policy and U.S. farm policy.

Tassos Haniotis

Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar,...

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Tassos Haniotis

Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

Tassos Haniotis recently retired, after a 33-year career in the Commission, as the Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission. Tassos is Sustainable Productivity Adviser for the Forum for the Future of Agriculture and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He previously held posts as Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives unit and the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis unit in the same Directorate General, as Member and subsequently Deputy Head of the Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler (with respective responsibilities the preparation of the 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the agricultural chapter of the Doha WTO Round and the EU-Mercosur negotiations), and as the Agricultural Counsellor of the European Commission’s Delegation in the United States. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, USA, and a B.A. in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in his native Greece. Before joining the European Commission, he spent six months as a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London, focusing on EU-US agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations. He hold a Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Thessaloniki. Active in the ag research community, he is a member of the International and European Associations of Ag Economics, the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, and the EU Nitrogen Expert Panel.

Lee Ann Jackson

Former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

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Lee Ann Jackson

Former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

Lee Ann Jackson is an experienced operational and strategic leader committed to working on key global issues with proven record of management in multi-cultural environments. Creative problem-solver, curious about alternative views and comfortable mediating conflict. Dynamic speaker and moderator in international dialogues. Dedicated international professional passionate about organizational learning and delivering a positive impact.

Sabrina Kogler

Socio-Economist, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), European Commission

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Sabrina Kogler

Socio-Economist, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), European Commission

Sabrina Kogler is a Socio-Economist in DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) at the European Commission

Alan Matthews

Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences...

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Alan Matthews

Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin

Alan Matthews is Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His major research interests are agricultural policy analysis, the impact of international trade on developing countries, and computable general equilibrium analysis of trade and agricultural policy reforms. He has previously worked as a consultant to the OECD, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and has been a panel member in a number of WTO Dispute Settlement procedures.

Marjukka Mattio

Senior Advisor, Dairy Milk Production, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), Finland...

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Marjukka Mattio

Senior Advisor, Dairy Milk Production, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), Finland & Special Adviser for the Milk Market Observatory

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Tiffanie Stephani

Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe

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Tiffanie Stephani

Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe

Tiffanie Stephani is heading the Government Relations and External Communications at Yara Europe, the market leader in plant nutrition in Europe. Truly inspired by Yara’s vision of a world without hunger and a planet respected, Tiffanie works actively to promote climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions such as green ammonia and green fertilizers. She joined Yara Region Europe in January 2021.

Prior to this, Tiffanie has been working as Senior Agriculture and Environment Manager at Fertilizers Europe, representing the interests of the mineral fertilizer manufacturers in the European Union, between March 2016 and December 2020. She started her career in European Government Relations and in the agriculture sector 17 years ago as policy officer in the European & environmental affairs department of the German Farmers’ Association (Deutscher Bauernverband, DBV) in Brussels. Tiffanie (French native) holds a university degree in political science from “Sciences Po Lille” and a master degree in European public management.

Bence Tóth

Acting Head of Unit for Analysis & Outlook, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG...

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Bence Tóth

Acting Head of Unit for Analysis & Outlook, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI)

Since April 2024, Bence Tóth has been Deputy Head of Unit for Analysis & Outlook, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). Before that he was assistant to the Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development at the European Commission since 2022. Previously he held several positions at the European Commission’s DG AGR. He was also member of Michel Barnier’s task force during the Brexit negotiations. Mr. Tóth has been working at the European Commission since 2003.

Agenda

Nov 06, 2025

09:00 - 16:30 (CET)

Day 1 (6 November 2025) - The Thon, rue de la Loi 75, 1000 Brussels

08:30 - 09:00 (CET)

Arrival and registration

Arrival and registration

09:00 - 09:15 (CET)

Introduction

Welcome and introduction by the moderator

• Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

Opening message

• Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

09:15 - 10:45 (CET)

The big picture

Presentation of OECD-FAO Outlook: Main assumptions and results

• Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO
• Marcel Adenäuer, Policy Analyst, OECD

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• Marcel Adenäuer, Policy Analyst, OECD
• Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA
• Bence Tóth, Acting Head of Unit for Analysis & Outlook, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI)
• Moderator Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

11:00 - 12:30 (CET)

The arable crops outlook

Presentation of OECD-FAO Outlook: Cereals, oilseeds and biofuels

• Thomas Chatzopoulos, Policy Analyst, OECD

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• Iliana Axiotiades, Secretary General, Coceral
• Glauco Bertoldo, Agricultural Attaché, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Mission of Brazil to the European Union
• Thomas Chatzopoulos, Policy Analyst, OECD
• Alexander Döring, Secretary General, FEFAC
• Tiffanie Stephani, Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe
• Moderator Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

12:30 - 14:00 (CET)

Networking lunch

14:00 - 15:30 (CET)

The livestock sector outlook

Presentation of OECD-FAO Outlook: Meats and dairy

• Marcel Adenäuer, Policy Analyst, OECD

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• Marcel Adenäuer, Policy Analyst, OECD
• Benoît Cassart, Member of the European Parliament
• Sabrina Kogler, Socio-Economist, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), European Commission
• Marjukka Mattio, Senior Advisor, Dairy Milk Production, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), Finland & Special Adviser for the Milk Market Observatory
• Ignacio Pérez Domínguez, Economist and Senior Researcher at European Commission
• Moderator Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

15:30 - 16:15 (CET)

What could go wrong?

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• John Baffes, Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, The World Bank
• Joseph W. Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
• Moderator Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

16:15 - 16:30 (CET)

First day wrap-up

Wrap up by the moderator

• Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

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