I am an Assistant Professor and the Director of LSU Global Value Chains Research Program at Louisiana State University. My research centers on the intersection between International Trade, Trade Policy and Geopolitics, and Global Value Chains in Agriculture.   

Please feel free to get in touch with me should you be interested in exploring potential collaborations or extending invitations for research seminars.

• Contact: slim@agcenter.lsu.edu | Google Scholar | LinkedIn | Twitter | CV

• News: 

  • I am very honored to be  selected as the 2025 Farm Foundation Agricultural Economics Fellow (LSU AgCenter News).

• • I am pleased to share that the Global Value Chain Development Report 2025—to which I contributed as a co-author—has now been officially published in World Trade Organization (WTO).

• • I am honored to have been appointed the Chair of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) for the 2026 term.

• 2025 Timeline for Invited Talks and Conferences: 

  • Executive Committee Member, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Tysons, VA, December, 2025

• • Invited Speaker and Panelist, Indo-Pacific Symposium on Trade and Sustainable Agriculture (co-hosted by the Australian Government Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry and the Australian Farm Institute), Brisbane, Australia, November, 2025

• • Research Travel, Asian Development Bank Institute and IDE-JETRO, Tokyo, Japan; multiple institutions, South Korea, November-December, 2025

• • Global Forum on Farm Policy and Innovation (invitation-only), Washington DC, October 7, 2025

• • Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, July 27-29, 2025

• • Farm Foundation Round Table Meeting (invitation-only), Spokane, WA, July, 2025

• • Global Value Chain Development Report 2025 (invitation-only), Authors' Workshop and Trade Conference, Washington DC, June 19-20, 2025

• • 2025 Farm Foundation Summit (invitation-only): Shaping the Future of US Food and Agriculture, Libertyville, Illinois, May 20, 2025