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     Dan Kugler was selected as the deputy administrator for economic and community systems in the Cooperative State, Research, Education, and Extension Service. He succeeded Bob Koopman, who served in that position from March 1997 until July 1999, when he became the chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

     From July 1999 until his recent selection, Kugler served as the acting deputy administrator for economic and community systems with CSREES. In addition, from 1995 until August 2000 he was the section leader for processing, engineering and technology in CSREES’s Plant and Animal Systems Unit, where he focused on such areas as biobased products, agricultural engineering, small farms, food safety and science, and farm safety. He served as the deputy administrator for special programs in the [then] Cooperative State Research Service from 1992-94, after having been its assistant deputy administrator for special programs from 1986-92.

     From 1985-86 Kugler worked as an agricultural economist in the Policy Branch of the Economic Research Service at its headquarters office in Washington, DC, where he concentrated on soil depletion economics and policy. He was an agricultural economist, first in ERS’s River Basins Branch and then in its Resource Systems Branch in East Lansing, Mich., from 1976-84. From 1971-74 he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Maimana, Afghanistan, where he concentrated on math and science training for teachers in the northwestern part of that country.

     A native of Rochester, N.Y., Kugler holds a B.S. degree in physics, an M.S. degree in resource development, and a Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics, all from Michigan State University.