Food security specialists

Gilles Bergeron has a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. His work experience includes three years with INCAP, three years as IFPRI's Regional Coordinator for the Fragile Lands Program in Central America, and two years in the Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI. His areas of expertise include monitoring and evaluation systems, food security issues, and nutrition programming. He is currently Senior Food Security Advisor for the FANTA Project, and leads FANTA's Monitoring and Evaluation cluster. Besides his work in Latin America, he has worked in Africa. He speaks French and Spanish.

Tony Castleman has an M.Phil. and an M.A. in Economics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University.  He has 13 years' experience in international development and health, including six years as the director of an NGO in India that implements a range of health, nutrition, and education projects.  He currently works with the FANTA Project, where he manages activities in east and southern Africa focused on strengthening nutritional care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV).  His work includes developing guidelines on HIV and nutrition, identifying promising program practices, and developing materials to support training, counseling, and monitoring and evaluation of nutritional care for PLWHIV.  Tony provides technical assistance to programs in India to strengthen nutrition interventions and food safety net systems.  He is fluent in Hindi.

Anne Swindale holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  She has extensive experience in providing technical assistance in food security and nutrition strategy and program assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation, with an emphasis on food aid programs.  She also has extensive experience with the collection, management, and analysis of large and complex primary income, expenditure, and consumption data sets from households and individuals.  Dr. Swindale is currently Director of the Food and Nutrition Technical Assstance (FANTA) Project.  She has lived and worked in Peru and the Dominican Republic, and speaks Spanish.

Kenton Kayira, currently Food Security/Sustainable Livelihoods and HIV/AIDS Mitigation Specialist for the FANTA Project, worked for six years as the National Program Officer (Food Security and Disaster Management) for the World Food Program's Malawi Country Office. During that time, Kenton managed Food for Work/Food for Asset projects, safety net emergency operations, and worked on a number of country program development assignments. He also coordinated the Country Common Assessment (CCA) Food Security and Nutrition Theme Group and contributed to the preparation of the 2002-2006 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Malawi. Recently, Kenton worked with the Consortium of Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) on "Adapting Food for Assets programming in the context of HIV/AIDS." Kenton is a Clark University doctoral student specializing in Agricultural Development, Food Security & Food Policy, and Cultural/Political Ecology.

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