

Conducting diverse, interdisciplinary agricultural research activities for many years, Emma Flemmig’s long-term goal is to offer scientists creative solutions to unpopular, but critical, aspects of agricultural research administration and project evaluation activities. Existing outside traditional silos, her breadth and depth of science experience provides a unique acumen to financial and grants management for global food security research portfolios. Currently working as a research grant administrator at Wichita State University, Flemmig previously worked in grants management and business development with Quisqueya University (Haiti) and The Land Institute, as technical staff on the Feed the Future Innovation Labs and USAID capacity building projects in agricultural higher education in South Sudan and Haiti with Virginia Tech and Kansas State University, and completed Fulbright-Nehru and Borlaug Global Food Security Research graduate fellowships. Flemmig has her B.S. in Agronomy from Iowa State University and M.S. in Crop Science from North Carolina State University.