Professor Sarah Wheeler is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and the Associate Director of Research of the Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide. She graduated with her PhD in 2007, and has over 120 peer-reviewed publications in the research areas of irrigated farming, organic farming, water markets, water scarcity, crime and gambling.

She is an Associate Editor/Editor of four water/economic journals and is also currently on five editorial boards. Previous jobs include working at Rural Solutions South Australia, ESCAP United Nations (Bangkok), Environment Agency (UK), the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies and University of South Australia.