Robert Paarlberg

Robert Paarlberg is an associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center and an associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been an adjunct professor of public policy at HKS and is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. A leading authority on food policy, his books include Resetting the Table, Starved for Science, Policy Reform in American Agriculture, and Fixing Farm Trade. Paarlberg has been a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Research Council of the National Academies, and the Board of Directors of Winrock International. He has worked in fifteen different countries in Africa as a consultant to the International Food Policy Research Institute, USAID, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Aspen Institute, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also chaired the independent steering committee for a CGIAR research program, Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).