Stuart has four decades of experience in food, nutrition and health policy, programming and research since his first position as nutrition coordinator in a project in southern India (1984-86). After acquiring a PhD in Human Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1988, he spent four years with the World Health Organisation in Geneva, two years with UNICEF in India and four years as a freelance consultant. He joined the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in 1999, where he led several initiatives, including a consortium on the double burden of malnutrition, the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL), Transform Nutrition, the Stories of Change initiative and a flagship of the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) programme. He has around 200 publications including 10 books. His latest book is Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet (Canongate, 2025).
Not broken, just wrong
30/12/2025
Nutrition expert, Stuart Gillespie, tells The Mint the food system is killing more people than hunger ever did and radical change is needed to end the carnage. In his book,