Emilie’s research focuses on innovation in the food sector in relation to health. She focuses in particular on strategies to preserve the social missions, authenticity, and innovation of small, entrepreneurial food companies after they are acquired. She examines the strategy, organizational behavior, M&A, and antitrust implications of these transactions.Emilie Aguirre 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 as a food and public health lawyer in the United States and Europe. Most recently, she was the Academic Fellow at the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, where she taught and researched. Previously, she spent two-plus years as a 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 in the UCLA Law Review, the British Medical Journal, the Food and Drug Law Journal, the Journal of Food Law & Policy, and Global Health Governance. 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 in both the U.S. and Europe.