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).