Gary C. Martin

Biographical Sketch

Gary C. Martin has served since June of 2000 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA,) the association of US grain and oilseed exporters. Among several related activities, he currently serves with the US Department of Agriculture and US Trade Representative Agricultural Policy Trade Advisory Committee, and the Executive Committee of International Grain Trade Coalition.

Before assuming the presidency of NAEGA, Mr. Martin was a NAEGA Board Director and officer, representing Farmland Industries, Inc. At Farmland he had several responsibilities including Director of Trade and International Relations, Director of Grain Marketing, and Founder and President of Farmland Graños in Mexico.

From 1990 to 1992 Mr. Martin served the Administration of George H.W. Bush at the US Department if Agriculture as Deputy Administrator of Commodity Operations and as an officer of the Commodity Credit Corporation. In the first year of the Clinton Administration, from 1992 to 1993, he served as an advisor to the Special Ambassador to the former Soviet Union at the US Department of State.

Gary Martin earned a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is also a graduate of the University of Missouri, Institute of Cooperative Leadership, and has graduate studies in International Transactions at the George Mason University.