James F Oehmke is a Senior Food Security and Nutrtion Policy Adviser at the US Agency for International Development, Bureau for Food Security. The Bureau has responsibility for leading the US Government's Feed the Future Initiative to end hunger and extreme poverty. Dr. Oehmke's is point of contact for agricultural and rural transformation, mutual accountability, nutrition policy, and gender policy. Selected documents are available on ResearchGate including outputs from The Rural Economic Transformation and Mutual Accountability ResearchGate projects. Dr. Oehmke previously served as the CEO of the George Morris Centre for Agricultural Policy in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and he is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University. He has a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.