Education: J.D. and PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Andrew Keller is a Senior Research Economist with the Agricultural Risk Policy Center at North Dakota State University. His research focuses on competition, concentration, and consolidation in U.S. agriculture, with work spanning transportation, livestock, and farmland. He uses firm-level data to measure concentration in the U.S. hog slaughter industry and to study how market structure and contracting relationships have evolved over time.

Andrew’s broader work sits at the intersection of applied industrial organization and agricultural policy. He has led and contributed to research on rail competition and agricultural supply chains, using waybill and network data to study shipment routing, market access, and price transmission in agricultural markets.

Andrew previously served as an Agricultural Economist at USDA’s Economic Research Service (2020–2025). He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota, and he is an LL.M. candidate in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas.