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The Freeman Center identifies the major challenges of an increasingly interdependent global economy, mobilizes resources to analyze the nature of those challenges, and crafts effective public responses.

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Orville L. Freeman served as the 29th governor of Minnesota between January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961. He went on to serve as United States secretary of agriculture from 1961 to 1969. Orville married Jane C. Shields in 1942 and the couple had two children.

Research with a Minnesota Focus

The Freeman Center regularly conducts research on important issues related to Minnesota's growing exposure to the global economy.

Outreach and Collaborations

The Center cooperates within the University and the broader community to gather and share knowledge about the policy problems of globalization.

The Center coordinates faculty interaction with the Hubert Humphrey International Fellows.

All-University Seminar

The Freeman Center has sponsored a bi-weekly seminar on global economic and other policy issues since 1991.

Freeman Forum

The Freeman Forum is a non-profit organization created by the family, friends, and colleagues of Orville Freeman with the University of Minnesota to honor and carry on the work of former Minnesota Governor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, who died in 2003.