Husker Trade Talk with Geitner Simmons

Where: Andersen Hall, Room 114

Description

Reporting on international trade issues involves understanding an interesting and stimulating set of disciplines including economics, law, business, science, agriculture, policymaking and politics. Journalists and communications professionals can have rewarding career opportunities involving trade matters. Such communications work has societal importance given global trade’s ever-evolving nature and the growing prominence of trade in political and policymaking debate. This presentation will cover those topics and describe Nebraska’s wide-ranging connections to the global marketplace. It will explain how the Yeutter Institute’s international trade minor provides solid grounding for understanding international trade in its multiple dimensions.

Geitner Simmons

SENIOR WRITER, IANR COMMUNICATIONS

Geitner is a longtime journalist who has written about international trade for three decades. As senior writer with IANR Communications, he reports on IANR research innovations and university strategic initiatives. He has worked with UNL’s Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance for years, both in his writing position at IANR and previously as editorial page editor for the Omaha World-Herald, where he wrote for two decades about the importance of the international marketplace to Nebraska’s economy. A North Carolina native, he has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University, where he graduated with honors from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.