Interagency Commodity Estimate Committee Chairperson
Michael Jewison
Michael Jewison has been with the Department of Agriculture since 2006 and has served as the Department’s Chairperson of the Interagency Commodity Estimates Committee for feed grains since 2016.
His primary responsibility is overseeing the development of the USDA’s global supply and utilization forecasts/estimates as part of the monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Before joining the WAOB, Mr. Jewison spent several years at USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), joining USDA in 2006. As a native of Minnesota, he did his undergraduate studies at St. Olaf College, his graduate work at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and also studied at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
