Stuart Gillespie

Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. He worked with a range of UN agencies across the world before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999, where he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security; the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health program; and the Stories of Change initiative, among a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy. His work—the food fight he has been waging—has driven change across all frontiers, from the grassroots (with village health workers, mothers, and children) to the political (challenging corporate behemoths and strengthening governance).