Joel Haggard

Mr. Haggard is Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific Region of U.S. Meat Export Federation. Sationed in the USMEF-Hong Kong office, Mr. Haggard oversees USMEF market development strategies and programs for U.S. red meat products in the region.  Before joining USMEF, Mr. Haggard had worked as grain analyst for USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service in Washington, D.C., analyzing and forecasting international trade patterns and worked for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service for five years, supervising all marketing activities involving U.S. agricultural trade with the People's Republic of China. Mr. Haggard has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin. He speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese.