Agboola Bello is an Agricultural and Applied Economics graduate researcher at the University of Georgia, focused on how nutrition policy shapes consumer behaviour, diet quality, and health. His work evaluates safety-net programmes such as SNAP, using causal inference methods and administrative and public microdata to build policy measures of food security, diet quality, and household well-being. He has supported end-to-end empirical research, from data construction and cleaning to econometric analysis and the presentation of results to both technical and non-technical audiences. He has also reviewed over 80+ manuscripts for RSIS International journals He holds an M.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Georgia. He is motivated by firsthand exposure to food insecurity through community service and is committed to research that enriches public well-being. He also serves as Founder and Director of the Human Welfare Lab, which generates evidence on food assistance and social protection policies to strengthen how these programmes protect low-income households from hunger, poverty, and nutritional risk across North America and Africa.