Jennifer Clapp

Jennifer Clapp is an expert on the political economy of food security and sustainability in a global context. She has published widely on the impacts of financial actors in the global food system, the politics of trade and food security, and the social and ecological implications of corporate concentration among agrifood firms. She is currently a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her most recent books include Titans of Industrial Agriculture (MIT Press, 2025), Food, 3rd Edition (Polity, 2020) Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture (Fernwood Press, 2018), and Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012). She is member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), and previously served as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the UN Committee on World Food Security. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her interdisciplinary research has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards. She holds a PhD in International Relations and a MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan.