Eleanor Wiseman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment. Prior to joining Stanford, she earned her PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley in 2023. She is also involved with the King Center on Global Development at Stanford.

Her research interests are in development economics, political economy and trade. Her primary research agenda focuses on informal agriculture trade and the role of corruption, bargaining, gender and information. Most of her projects are located in East Africa.