Jerry Nagel

Northern Great Plains, Inc.

Jerry Nagel is a fourth generation North Dakotan.  He spent his winters attending school in Bismarck, North Dakota and his summers at his grandparent’s farm on the edge of Millarton, ND (pop. 15).  Nagle graduated from high school in 1969 and then began a rather long college career adhering to the perspective that schooling should never interfere with his education.  Nagle finally received an MA in economics from the University of North Dakota in 1984.

Currently Nagel serves as the President of Northern Great Plains Inc. a non-profit applied research, demonstration and convening organization.  The mission of NGP is to make a positive difference in the future of rural communities and businesses by helping them successfully adapt to changing market and social forces.  Jerry is coauthor of several NGP publications including “The New Marketplace in European Agriculture: Environmental and Social Values within the Food Chain”, “Private Sector Protocols: Threats and Opportunities for American farmers”, and Towards New Horizons: Trends in Transportation and Trade – Moving the Northern Great Plains Region to a Stronger Economic Future. 

Nagel was an editor of Renewing the Countryside-North Dakota.  He also coauthored Talking Wires, a history of North Dakota's rural telephone cooperatives and authored "Aid to the Poor: Am I My Brothers Keeper", a humanities study guide.  Nagel has also attended the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard University as a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellow.  He is also a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow.

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