2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Brian E. Roe, Ph.D., is the Van Buren Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at the Ohio State University. Dr. Roe has worked broadly in the areas of agricultural and environmental economics focusing on issues including food waste, food demand, agricultural marketing, information policy, farm nutrient management, behavioral economics and product quality. Dr. Roe helped form and currently leads the Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative and co-directs an NSF-funded Research Network focused on addressing wasted food. He served as a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine consensus study on "A Systems Approach to Reducing Consumer Food Waste." Roe serves as the President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and has served on the ReFED Advisory Council since 2022. Roe has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in from the University of Maryland – College Park.