Kristin Wedding

Kristin Wedding is a fellow with the CSIS Global Food Security Project, where she works on policy issues related to enhancing global food security. She is also assistant director for corporate relations in the CSIS Office of Strategic Planning, where she is responsible for managing the Center’s relationships with companies in the defense and technology sectors. Most recently, Ms. Wedding coauthored The Role of Markets and Trade in Food Security (CSIS, June 2010), and she was a contributing author to Cultivating Global Food Security: A Strategy for U.S. Leadership on Productivity, Agricultural Research, and Trade (CSIS, April 2010). After joining CSIS in 2005, she served for two years as the research associate in the CSIS Mexico Project, where she analyzed Mexico’s domestic politics, U.S.-Mexico bilateral relations, and trade and investment issues. She was a regular contributor to the monthly newsletter Hemisphere Highlights, issued by the CSIS Americas Program. Ms. Wedding holds an M.A. in international political economy from the American University School of International Service, and she earned a B.A. international relations and Spanish from Florida State University.