Sandro Steinbach, PhD
Associate Professor/Director for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies
Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth
- sandro.steinbach@ndsu.edu
- 701-231-7441
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Office: Richard H. Barry Hall

Sandro Steinbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics at North Dakota State University. He directs the Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies and is a Challey Institute Scholar. Sandro completed his doctoral studies in Economics with the Center for Economic Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes related to agricultural policy and trade, business management, and applied data analysis. Sandro's research focuses on agricultural trade and policy. He also conducts research in health and environmental economics. His work appears in the top field and general interest journals, such as Nature Communications, Economics Letters, Journal of Health Economics, the NBER working paper series, and other academic journals.
Areas of Study & Research
- Agricultural policy and trade
- Business management
- Applied data analysis
Education
- DrSc ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
- MS Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA
- MSc Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- BSc Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- BSc Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany