Dr Stuart Gillespie has over four decades of experience in food, nutrition and development since his first position as nutrition coordinator in a rural development project in southern India. He spent four years with the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and two years with UNICEF in India. After joining IFPRI in 1999, he led a consortium on the double burden of malnutrition and a global initiative on agriculture and health research. In 2001, he co-founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) in a pioneering networking approach in Africa. In 2011 he led two multi-partner research program consortia on undernutrition – Transform Nutrition and LANSA – and from 2015-21, he led the Stories of Change project and the flagship SPEAR project of the IFPRI-led Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) program. He has around 200 publications including 10 books, 14 monographs and 22 book chapters. His latest book Food Fight will be published in April 2025 by Canongate.