Instructors

The program’s faculty are leaders in academia and industry, experts in their fields who are outstanding teachers and communicators.

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Daniel Hooker

Director, Executive Education, Food Industry Management Program

Dan is a global retail and consumer packaged good executive with broad experience across diverse business environments and formats. For the last four years Dan has focused on the digital channel. As a member of Cornell’s Food Industry Management Program faculty, Dan is involved in instruction and executive education. Dan will teach a course in food merchandising.

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Miguel Gómez

Academic Director, Food Industry Management Program

Miguel I. Gómez is the Robert G. Tobin Food Marketing Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He is the faculty director of the Food Industry Management Program, which is globally recognized as the premier food industry education and research program.

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Ed McLaughlin

Professor Emeritus & Faculty Director, Food Executive Program

Before earning his PhD, Ed worked for United Nations, the U.S. State Department and the World Bank. Until his recent retirement, he taught courses in food marketing and retail strategy and for over 20 years, directed Cornell’s undergraduate business program before becoming the Dyson School’s first dean.

Generous support from Nestlé sponsors retailer scholarships and curriculum enrichment.