Rejeana Gvillo

Rejeana Gvillo: Rejeana Gvillo specializes primarily in grain and oilseeds markets. She focuses on identifying statistical relationships and generating visual graphics to accompany analyses. Gvillo previously held the role of Head of Grain and Livestock Research at IEG Vantage (formally known as Informa Economics) and held an adjunct faculty position at the University of Memphis, teaching both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics to undergraduate students. After growing up on a cattle, catfish, cotton, and hay farm in West Alabama, Gvillo received her bachelor’s in Agricultural Economics from Auburn University before going on to the University of Memphis to receive a specialty degree in Cotton Marketing from the International Cotton School. She then obtained her master’s from Purdue and PhD from Texas A&M in Agricultural Economics. Her research broadly examined areas such as consumer demand analysis, behavioral economics, food/agricultural marketing, and production. Gvillo’s econometric training primarily is focused on simultaneous demand equations, which typically suffer from endogeneity and serial correlation issues. She is driven be helping farmers minimize risk from a price standpoint.