Food security specialists

Gilles Bergeron currently acts as Deputy Director for FANTA-2's Global Leadership Unit. Dr. Bergeron has extensive international experience, having represented FANTA and FANTA-2 for more than ten years in locations such as Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Haiti. Before joining FANTA, he spent six years with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), first as a Food Security Fellow outposted to the Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama (INCAP) in Guatemala, then as a Research Fellow at IFPRI's headquarters in D.C. During his career, he has conducted research and published widely on issues related to natural resources and sustainable agriculture as well as on assessment methodologies for the design and targeting of food security interventions. Dr. Bergeron has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in development sociology and a strong background in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. He is a native French speaker and is fluent in Spanish and English.

Tony Castleman has a Ph.D. in Economics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University. He has 17 years of experience in international development and health, including six years as the director of an NGO in India implementing a range of health, nutrition, education, and economic development projects. Tony currently works with the FANTA-2 Project as Deputy Director - Field Support. He manages the project's technical assistance in the areas of nutrition and HIV, maternal and child health and nutrition, and emergency nutrition and community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), including long-term, in-country technical assistance in 15 countries. Tony has expertise in nutrition and HIV programming, the use of specialized food products to manage malnutrition, and program design and management. 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 in program assessment, design, and monitoring and evaluation, with an emphasis on food assistance 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 Assistance II (FANTA-2) Project.  She has lived and worked in Peru and the Dominican Republic, and speaks Spanish.

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