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Dr. Sunghun Lim's research centers on the intersection between International Trade, Agricultural Development, Production, and Supply Chains. His primary research focus is studying how agricultural global value chains and international trade affect national economic outcomes, such as structural transformation, employment, food security, and international trade. His other research interest is understanding the ways in which farmers' risk attitudes toward uncertainty affect strategic agribusiness management, in the context of food security, contract farming, crop diversification, and supply chains. 

 Prior to Texas Tech University, Dr. Lim worked as an adjunct faculty at St. Catherine University in St Paul, Augsburg University in Minneapolis, and Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He also researched at the University of Minnesota Extension's Applied Research and Evaluation Team. His primary job was leading large scale statewide impact studies in the topics, including the USDA-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), healthy food choice experiments, farmers' markets, and local supply chains. In addition, he researched at the National Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI)'s Global Food Supply Chain Team, and the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Dr. Lim earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and B.A. in Economics both at the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis).

Andrew Beer is the Executive Dean of the UniSA Business School. He is also a leading researcher across a range of areas including Australia’s housing market, the drivers of growth and change in regions, the processes of industry adjustment and the performance of non-metropolitan housing markets. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences and has worked closely with a number industry partners over many years. Andrew is a foremost expert in the outcomes associated with the closure of Australia’s car industry: working on the closure of the Mitsubishi plant at Lonsdale in the early 2000s, and then leading a project examining industry shutdown from 2017. Other significant projects he has led include a study into the drivers of growth in Australia’s smaller cities, the impact of Covid-19 induced disruption in regional housing markets in Australia, how to better govern and deliver place-based programs, the impact of cold housing on health and how to transition regional economies away towards a post-coal mining future.  
Andrew’s research partners have included local governments, the OECD, the Australian Government, the South Australian Government, the Victorian Government, social service providers and collaborators from international universities including Tampere University, Finland; The University of Birmingham, UK; George Mason University, USA; Charles University, Czech Republic and the University of Kiel, Germany.

Professor Chris Leishman is a housing economist, and one of Australia’s leading housing researchers. He is also a non-executive director of Housing Choices Australia – a not for profit community housing provider active in South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Chris is best known for his work on modelling housing supply and housing need in Australia and the UK. He is an editor of the academic journal Urban Studies and a past Editor-in-Chief of the Housing Studies journal. He works extensively with government at national, state and local levels and is focused on research projects that make a difference to people either directly, or through influencing policy change. He is the author of many recent research reports that have studied the impact of COVID-19 on the housing system and the economy, and a major study about to be published on the links between population change, migration and economic productivity.