Daniel Maxwell is the Henry J Leir Professor in Food Security at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Research Director at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. He is the author, with Nisar Majid, of Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives and Collective Failures 2011-2012 (2016, Hurst). He is a member of the Famine Review Committee for Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis.