Jennifer Clapp

is a member of the IPES-Food panel, is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, and is Vice-Chairperson of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the UN's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) – the United Nations body for assessing the science related to world food security and nutrition. She holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. Throughout her career, her research has focused on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy, the environment, and food security. In particular, her research and her books have centred on questions of how international economic policies can better foster food security and environmental sustainability goals on a global scale - including responses to the global food crisis. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research, combining insights from political science, international relations, economics, environmental studies and food studies.