Food Security Summit

Friday, October 30: Half-Day Food Security Summit with Cargill

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Ballroom A – Level One
1301 2nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Time: 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. - 10:00a.m. Panel I – Filling the World’s Plate:
Meeting the Globe’s Growing Demand for Safe, Affordable, Nutritious Food
Confirmed Panelists:

• David MacLennan, Chairman, President & CEO of Cargill, Inc.
• Chris Policinski, President & CEO of Land O’Lakes, Inc.
• James O’Rourke, President & CEO of The Mosaic Company
• Doug Baker, Chairman & CEO of Ecolab

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Networking Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Panel II – the War on Big Food
Confirmed Panelists:

• Greg Page, Executive Director of Cargill, Inc.
• Jeffrey Ettinger, Chairman, President & CEO of Hormel Foods
• Jeff Harmening, COO of General Mills
• Sally Smith, President & CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings

11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Networking Break
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Luncheon/Keynote Address

Rev. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World & 2010 World Food Prize Laureate

Keynote Speaker

David Beckmann
President of Food for the World & 2010 World Food Prize Laureate

World Food Prize laureate David Beckmann is one of the foremost U.S. advocates for hungry and poor people. He has been president of Bread for the World since 1991, leading large-scale and successful campaigns to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcome hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Bread for the World is a U.S. Christian advocacy movement to end hunger.

Beckmann is also president of Bread for the World Institute, which provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. He founded and serves as president of the Alliance to End Hunger, which engages diverse U.S. institutions—Muslim and Jewish groups, corporations, unions, and universities—in building the political will to end hunger.

Beckmann is a Lutheran pastor as well as an economist. He earned degrees from Yale University, Christ Seminary, and the London School of Economics. Six universities have awarded him honorary doctorates. In 2010, he was named a World Food Prize laureate.

Beckmann has appeared on "Bill Moyer’s Journal," PBS’s "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly," CNN Español, C-Span, NPR’s "Morning Edition," and "The Diane Rehm Show." His latest book is Exodus from Hunger: We Are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger.

Currently Beckmann serves on USAID’s Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee on Africa, and the Executive Committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. He has served as a board member of InterAction, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, the ONE Campaign, and the National Anti-Hunger Organizations. Beckmann is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Prior to joining Bread, Beckmann worked at the World Bank for 15 years, overseeing large development projects and driving innovations to make the bank more effective in reducing poverty.

Beckmann has lived in Bangladesh and Ghana, overseen projects in Bolivia and Ecuador, and visited more than 70 countries. He speaks Spanish.