Amelia B. Finaret is a food economist and a clinical dietitian. She teaches and conducts research on child nutrition, dietary quality and the linkages between agriculture and nutrition at Allegheny College in the United States. Her work addresses the data quality and data errors in large-scale nutrition and public health survey datasets, measurement challenges, and causal inference in the field of nutrition. Dr. Finaret has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University, an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University, and a PhD from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She is credentialed as a Registered Dietitian (RD) from the Council for Dietetic Registration (CDR) in the United States and practices medical nutrition therapy at a critical access hospital in rural PA. Dr. Finaret was a Borlaug Fellow in Global Food Security in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2013 to 2015. She is an Honorary Lecturer in Global Agriculture and Food Systems at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Her textbook with William A. Masters was published Open Access from Palgrave MacMillan in 2024 - Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health.