Parke Wilde

Parke Wilde is a food economist at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Previously, he worked for the Community Nutrition Institute and for USDA’s Economic Research Service. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Cornell University. At Tufts, Parke 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. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Food Forum and currently is a member of the research committee advising AGree, a national food policy initiative. Parke keeps a well-respected blog at usfoodpolicy.com and has a book from Routledge/Earthscan in 2013, titled Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction.