Brian E. Roe is the Van Buren Professor at the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, and a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics and was named as part of the 1990 Truman Scholar class. He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. Before his employment at Ohio State, he worked on policy issues surrounding food safety and health information disclosure as a Staff Fellow at the US Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC. His research topics mainly include food waste, product quality, information policy, agricultural marketing, farm management, and nutrient management.