GEAPS Exchange 2025: The Future of Ethanol: Challenges, Opportunities, and Growth
Session Description
This session will provide a historical, current, and future perspective on the ethanol industry. It will explore the challenges and opportunities related to sustainability and industry growth, as well as its impact on agriculture and individual corn farmers. The session will also examine the political landscape at both the state and federal levels. Finally, it will address the global opportunities for ethanol and its coproducts moving forward.
Meet The Speaker
Robert White
SVP of Industry Relations & Market Development
Renewable Fuels Association
Robert White is SVP of Industry Relations and Market Development for RFA, a non-profit trade organization that serves as the voice of the ethanol industry, providing advocacy, authoritative analysis, and important industry data to its members, Congress, federal and state government agencies, fuel retailers, strategic partners, the media and other opinion-leader audiences.
As SVP of Industry Relations & Market Development, Mr. White leads the effort to increase the availability and consumption of ethanol, along with consumer education, and marketing. He works with petroleum marketers and retailers, state and federal agencies, fleets and consumers on a daily basis, and is a sought-after technical expert for the ethanol industry on ethanol, E15 and E85. He also oversees membership for the association.