Emilie Aguirre

Emilie researches at the intersection of management, business law, and health and food systems. Her scholarship focuses on how companies successfully pursue both social purpose and profit, particularly as they scale and go through capital transitions such as funding rounds, IPOs, and strategic and private equity acquisitions. She focuses especially on companies in (or adjacent to) the food sector. Emilie holds an AB in Sociology summa cum laude from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. Prior to HBS, Emilie worked for five years as a food and public health lawyer in the United States and Europe. She was the Academic Fellow at the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, where she taught, researched, and worked as a supervising attorney. Previously, she spent two-plus years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fulbright Schuman scholar, Harvard Knox Fellow, and Isaac Newton Trust grantee. During law school, Emilie worked in privacy law at Microsoft and in mergers and acquisitions and antitrust law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz. Previously, Emilie worked for an education and health non-profit in the Dominican Republic as a Princeton in Latin America Fellow.  Emilie’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the UC Davis Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the British Medical Journal, and the Food and Drug Law Journal, among others. Her previous research has addressed governance strategies to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in the food system, and the effects of sugar policy and agricultural law on health outcomes in both the U.S. and Europe.