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Panel Member: Robert Paarlberg
Robert Paarlberg is the Betty Freyhof Johnson ‘44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, and an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. In 2008-09 he is Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Paarlberg received his undergraduate degree in political science from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Paarlberg has been a member of the Board of Directors of Winrock International, a member of the Emerging Markets Advisory Committee at the United States Department of Agriculture, and a scientific liaison officer to the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is currently a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Research Council, and has recently been a consultant to USAID, IFPRI, the Department of State, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has published books on agricultural trade and U.S. foreign policy, on international agricultural trade negotiations, on environmentally sustainable farming in developing countries, on U.S. foreign economic policy, on the reform of U.S. agricultural policy, and on policies toward genetically modified crops in developing countries.
His latest book, titled "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa," was published by Harvard University Press in March 2008. He is currently senior consultant to a Chicago Council on Global Affairs bipartisan study group on the future of U.S. agricultural development assistance policy.
Panel Member: Susan Roberts
Susan Roberts integrates food, agriculture, health and the law in developing policies and strategies for safer, sustainable, just food systems which in turn catalyze greater health among individuals, communities, and environments.
As a consultant, writer and speaker on food systems Ms. Roberts takes scientific information and translates it into policy applications linking public health, food, agriculture and food security. Recently Ms. Roberts directed the WK Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellows Program where national fellows used media to influence food systems, agriculture and health thinking and policy. Ms. Roberts also worked on staff at the Drake University Law School Agricultural Law Center analyzing food policy. Ms. Roberts has experience as a Research Dietitian publishing medical research and experience in government administration as Director of Public Health Nutrition for the Iowa Department of Public Health, directing state nutrition programs such as the WIC Program.
Recent writings of Ms. Roberts span op-eds on prevention in health care to a paper entitled Legal Analysis of Opportunities to Address Obesity and Protect Public Health to food security with the Hunger in Iowa Report. Ms. Roberts recent speaking engagements include Farm Bill implications for both the health and legal communities to 'Good Food; Know It, Get It' for the general public at the Heinz Endowment Women's Health Conference.
Ms. Roberts received her BS in Dietetics, Food and Nutrition from Iowa State University, her MS in Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and her Juris Doctorate of Law from Drake University School of Law with special certificates in Food & Agricultural Law and Legislative Practice.
Ms. Roberts is the recipient of the National Environmental Nutrition Award, the Iowa Public Health Nutrition Advocate Award, Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Director's National Award for Nutrition Advocacy and the American Dietetic Association Medallion Award.
Panel Member: Mark Winne
From 1979 to 2003, Mark Winne was the Executive Director of the Hartford Food System, a private non-profit agency that works on food and hunger issues in the Hartford, Connecticut area. During his tenure with HFS, Mark organized community self-help food projects that assisted the city's lower income and elderly residents. Mark's work with the Food System included the development of commercial food businesses, Connecticut's Farmers' Market Nutrition Program, farmers' markets, a 25-acre community supported agriculture farm, a food bank, food and nutrition education programs, and a neighborhood supermarket.
Mark is a co-founder of a number of food and agriculture policy groups including the City of Hartford Food Policy Commission, the Connecticut Food Policy Council, End Hunger Connecticut!, and the national Community Food Security Coalition. He was an organizer and chairman of the Working Lands Alliance, a statewide coalition working to preserve Connecticut's farmland, and is a founder of the Connecticut Farmland Trust. Mark was a member of the United States Delegation to the 2000 World Conference on Food Security in Rome and is a 2001 recipient of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary's Plow Honor Award. From 2002 until 2004, Mark was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a position supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Mark currently writes, speaks, and consults extensively on community food system topics including hunger and food insecurity, local and regional agriculture, community food assessment, and food policy. He also does policy communication and food policy council work for the Community Food Security Coalition. His essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Hartford Courant, the Boston Globe, The Nation, In These Times, Sierra Magazine, Orion Magazine, Successful Farming and numerous organizational and professional newsletters and journals across the country. His first book "Closing the Food Gap — Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty", published by Beacon Press, will be released in January 2008. He now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he serves on the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council and the Southwest Grass-fed Livestock Alliance.
Mark holds a bachelor's degree from Bates College and a master's degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Panel Moderator: Parke Wilde
Parke Wilde is a food economist. He is an associate professor in the Food Policy and Applied Nutrition (FPAN) program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Parke began his career as the editor of Nutrition Week, the publication of the Community Nutrition Institute. After completing a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Cornell, he worked five years for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. In 2003, he joined the faculty of the Friedman School, where he teaches graduate-level courses in statistics and U.S. food policy. His research addresses food security and hunger measurement, the economics of food assistance programs, and federal dietary guidance policy.