Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from North Dakota State University; M.S. in Applied Statistics from North Dakota State University.

Geoffrey Childress is the Principal Economist, Crop Insurance Strategy and Industry Engagement for the Agricultural Risk Policy Center at North Dakota State University. In this role, Geoffrey helps shape the Center’s crop insurance research agenda and identifies emerging issues in the crop insurance program.  His duties include ensuring ARPC’s work responds to pressing questions facing producers, insurers, and policymakers.  

Prior to joining NDSU, Geoffrey worked extensively within the crop insurance industry, beginning with his family’s independent crop insurance agency in Towner, North Dakota. Most recently, he spent seventeen years with RCIS, a national crop insurance provider, where his work included multi-peril loss ratio estimation, rate impact analysis, premium forecasting, portfolio risk optimization, A&O and agency commission analysis, private product development, and strategic modeling.