Peter Stenberg

Dr. Stenberg currently conducts research in the area of resource and rural economics in the Economic Research Service. Prior to joining the Economic Research Service he was an assistant professor in the economics department at Hamline University, a research associate in the Center of Urban and Regional Affairs (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), and a private consultant who had research contracts with various state and federal agencies, universities, and corporations across the United States. Dr. Stenberg’s research has been in the area of economic development policy. The research focus has been on physical and human infrastructure. Projects have included rural telecommunication policy, science and technology policy affecting rural-urban economic clusters, economic development, regional and international trade, comparative economics, policy toward the investment in higher education research and teaching activities (such as the land-grant institutions), and general regional socio-economic issues. He earned a Ph.D. and an MS in applied economics from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a BS in engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Stenberg has published or presented over 100 papers on topics in economic development and policy.