Wolfram Schlenker is the Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System at Harvard University and a leading expert on the intersection of climate, agriculture, and human health. His research examines how weather and climate affect agricultural yields and migration, how climate trends and U.S. biofuel policies influence commodity prices, and how pollution impacts both crop productivity and human morbidity.
Wolfram is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science. Professor Schlenker holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Engineering and Management Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University.
From hidden vulnerabilities to future-ready solutions – our second Kerry Health and Nutrition Institute podcast puts the resilience of today’s food system under the spotlight and asks what it will take to strengthen it. Hosted by the KHNI and moderated by Mary Shelman, founder of the Shelman Group, this session brought together Wolfram Schlenker,…
