Thomas Reardon is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Tom is Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and Honorary Life Member (equivalent of Fellow) of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). Tom has been at MSU since 1992; IFPRI Research Fellow 1986-1991 and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow since 2022; Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doc with IFPRI in Burkina Faso 1984-1986; and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1984. Tom studies the transformation of food value chains and rural nonfarm/food system employment: the “supermarket revolution,” and the “Quiet Revolution in the Hidden Middle” (the rapid development of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the midstream of value chains). Tom coined the term “Hidden Middle” in 2015 to refer to this midstream development. He studies the impacts of these transformations on food industry business strategies, and on farms, consumers, and employment in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Tom resided 21 years in those three regions. Tom is in Who’s Who in Economics; was featured on the front page of the New York Times; was the first agrifood economist invitee to the World Economic Forum in Davos; has 50,000 citations (in top 3 in agricultural economics and 5 in food systems) and H index of 103 in Google Scholar; and ranks in the top 1.7% of the 69,000 economists followed globally by IDEAS/REPEC.