Karen Bender

Karen Bender is the Associate Director of Corporate Relations and Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Engagement Council for the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois.

Karen’s dissertation title was “Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for value-Added Corn and Soybean Markets” (2001). Karen undertook an examination of the social construction of the GMO and non-GMO crop supply chains that developed in the 1990s. She completed a qualitative analysis of the social embeddedness of these markets and a quantitative analysis of the transactions costs between producers and merchandisers of these specialty grains.

Karen’s exalted position in university administration means she doesn’t maintain a web page.