Karen Braun

Karen Braun is the Global Agriculture Columnist for Thomson Reuters, where she focuses on topics that interest primarily the grain and oilseed markets.

Prior to joining the Reuters News organization, Karen was an agriculture analyst with Thomson Reuters’ research group Lanworth where she specialized in production forecasts for European and Black Sea crops. Karen has a lot of boots-on-the-ground experience and has led crop tours through Russia, Ukraine, France, Serbia, and the United States.

With both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Meteorology, Karen also focuses on weather and climate and their impacts on agricultural production around the globe.