Howard G. Buffett grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has been active in agriculture, business, conservation, philanthropy, photography, law enforcement, and politics. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private charitable foundation investing in global food security, conflict mitigation, and efforts to counter human trafficking. Mr. Buffett farms his family farm in central Illinois and oversees a family farm in Nebraska. He oversees multiple foundation-operated research farms in Arizona, Illinois, and Nebraska. He oversees two ranches in Arizona, a ranch and farm in New Mexico and a farm in Texas.

Mr. Buffett was appointed Sheriff of Macon County, Illinois on September 15, 2017, confirmed by the Macon County Board on November 9, 2017 and served out his term until its expiration on November 30, 2018. He currently serves as Undersheriff of the Christian County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois and Volunteer Deputy Commander of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona and was an Auxiliary Deputy for the Christian County Sheriff’s Office and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois for a cumulative five years. In 2015, he was presented the National Sheriffs’ Association Medal of Merit for his support to the field of law enforcement & criminal justice, in 2016, named an honorary member of the National Sheriffs’ Association, and in 2017, received the High Sheriff Award, the highest award presented by the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association.

Mr. Buffett currently serves on the corporate board of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. He has served on the boards of Archer Daniels Midland, The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., ConAgra Foods, Lindsay Corporation, Agro Tech Foods, and Sloan Implement. He has served in several senior corporate executive positions and has served in elected office in Nebraska.

Mr. Buffett is a former member of the Commission on Presidential Debates and has served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger on behalf of the World Food Programme. Mr. Buffett has received the Aztec Eagle Award from the President of Mexico, the highest honor bestowed on a foreign citizen by the Government of Mexico, the Fe en la Causa Medal from the government of Colombia, the highest honor bestowed upon a civilian by the Colombian Military, the Igihango National Order of Outstanding Friendship Medal from the government of Rwanda, one of the country’s highest honors, the Order of San Carlos by Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez, which honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the nation of Colombia, especially in the field of international relations and the Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service to the Ukrainian People from the Ukraine Parliament.

He has also been honored over the years for his leadership and contributions to agriculture, conservation, philanthropy, and journalism; including being recognized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture as one of the most distinguished individuals in the field of agriculture as well as being awarded the World Ecology Award, the National Farmers Union Meritorious Service to Humanity Award, the Leader in Agriculture Award from Agriculture Future of America, the Special Service Award from the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development, the Norman E. Borlaug award from CIMMYT, the Leadership in Science Public Service Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, and the Will Owen Jones Distinguished Journalist of the Year Award.

Mr. Buffett has traveled to 150 countries and authored 15 books on conservation, wildlife, and the human condition, including the New York Times bestseller 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World and Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Duels the Drug Epidemic Across America. He is the executive producer of four award-winning documentary films: Porcelain War, an Academy Award-nominated film about Ukrainian artists who manage to find beauty and inspiration even as they defend their country and their culture from Russia’s brutal invasion; Virunga, an Academy Award-nominated film about Africa’s oldest national park; Path of the Panther, an Emmy-winning documentary about efforts to protect the endangered Florida panther; and The River and The Wall, a film documenting how construction of physical barriers impacts life in the Texas-Mexico border region.