Stuart Gillespie is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow.  Between 1999-2021 he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division. During his time with IFPRI he initiated the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL), the CGIAR’s Agriculture and Health Research Platform (AHRP), the TANDI project, Stories of Change in Nutrition, and the Transform Nutrition Research Program Consortium. He was also research director of the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) consortium, leader of the SPEAR flagship (Supporting Policies, Programs and Enabling Action through Research) of the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) research program, and director of the Transform Nutrition West Africa program.

He has a PhD in Human Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1988). Prior to joining IFPRI in 1999, he worked with UNICEF, World Bank, WFP, FAO, WHO, UNSCN, ADB, Micronutrient Initiative and other agencies on nutrition policy analysis and program support.

He has 170 publications, including 9 books, 14 monographs and 21 book chapters.