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Richard O. Ryan
Richard O. Ryan was raised on a farm in downstate Illinois and spent his career in the agribusiness industry, primarily in agricultural seeds. He earned his BS from Quincy College in 1964 and his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1966. After graduation, he became an officer in the US Army serving in Vietnam. Following initial employment with Armour & Co and the Chicago Board of Trade, Ryan added a MS degree at Stanford’s Food Research Institute in 1979, the year he joined DEKALB Genetics as an M&A manager.
He became President and COO of DEKALB in 1990. DEKALB was acquired by Monsanto in 1998 and for the next four years, Ryan served as Vice President in Global Product Management overseeing worldwide seed operations. Since retirement in 2002, Ryan has served as consultant and is involved with numerous philanthropic activities. His exposure to markets and price issues in the developing world has encouraged his strong interest in the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory.
