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The following is a list of selected speakers and not a complete list. This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
Vice President, Global Design and Development, Nutrition Ventures
PepsiCo
Dr. Dondeena Bradley is Vice President, Global Design and Development, Nutrition Ventures. She is responsible for designing new solutions that target special nutritional needs of consumers with diverse health issues, like obesity and diabetes.
Dondeena's prior role in PepsiCo was leading the Nutrition organization which was responsible for delivering global strategies in the areas of nutrition standards, nutrient fortification, and education programs. These three areas help to increase the capability of global R&D and bolster PepsiCo's Human Sustainability Performance with Purpose agenda.
Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2007, she led the strategic marketing team accountable for the development of nutrition technology platforms and company-wide strategic planning for McNeil Nutritionals, a division of Johnson and Johnson. Previously, she held numerous roles in the areas of nutrition and health with M&M Mars, Stepan Chemical, and Campbell Soup. Dr. Bradley was also the founder of her own business focused on health called Conceptual Ventures. Dr. Bradley received her Doctor of Philosophy in food science from The Ohio State University and her Master of Science in nutrition from Purdue University. She completed her Bachelor of Science from Anderson University.
Dondeena lives in New York City and is currently involved in several external organizations focused on her passion in the area of innovation.
Food Systems Consultant, Senior Associate
Center for a Livable Future Johns Hopkins University
Kate Clancy is currently a food systems consultant, Visiting Scholar at the Center for a Livable Future Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and Senior Fellow in the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota (she resides in University Park, Maryland). She has a Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.
Her resume includes positions at several universities (Cornell, Syracuse, and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin): the federal government (nutritionist and policy adviser at the Federal Trade Commission): and nonprofits (the Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy). She has served on numerous boards (the Society for Nutrition Education, Bread for the World, Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and Michael Fields Agricultural Institute among others).
Clancy developed a graduate course on food systems in 1982 and since then has published, taught, spoken, and consulted widely on sustainable agriculture and food systems with government agencies, universities, and nonprofits around the country. Her present interests are the research and policy facets of Agriculture of the Middle, the development of regional food systems, the relationships between land use and farm viability, and the research needed to advance sustainable agriculture and food systems policy.
President & CEO
Fair Food Network
Dr. Hesterman is the inaugural president and chief executive officer of the Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to re-designing the food system in a manner that upholds the fundamental right to healthy, fresh, and sustainably-grown food. A national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems, Dr. Hesterman has published more than 400 reports and articles. He played an essential role in the establishment of the Michigan Food Policy Council. Dr. Hesterman has also made significant contributions to the funding of healthy food and farming via his leadership of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders group. As a former farmer and an avid potter, Dr. Hesterman's eclectic and innovative experiences contribute grounded guidance to this organization and the broader sustainable food systems movement.
Prior to coming to the Fair Food Network, Dr. Hesterman worked at the Kellogg Foundation for 12 years, where he envisioned and nurtured food system projects, partnerships and collaborations, national and international in scope. He also organized national and international seminars on sustainable agriculture and community-based food systems on behalf of the Kellogg Foundation. He also was the founding President of the Fair Food Foundation. Dr. Hesterman researched and taught forage and cropping systems management, sustainable agriculture, and leadership development in the Crop and Soil Sciences department at Michigan State University in East Lansing before going to the Kellogg Foundation in 1996. From 1987-1990, he was a fellow in the Kellogg National Fellowship Program (KNFP). Dr. Hesterman was also a fellow at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Hesterman earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of California-Davis in plant science/vegetable crops and agronomy, respectively. He received his doctorate in agronomy and business administration from the University of Minnesota, in St. Paul.
Professor of Religion and Philosophy, ISU
President, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
Frederick L. Kirschenmann, a longtime national and international leader in sustainable agriculture, shares an appointment as Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and as President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. He also oversees management of his family's 3,500-acre certified organic farm in south central North Dakota and is a professor in the ISU Department of Religion and Philosophy.
Kirschenmann holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and has written extensively about ethics and agriculture. He has held numerous appointments, including the USDA's National Organic Standards Board and the National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production operated by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and funded by Pew Charitable Trusts.
He served as the Center's second director from July 2000 to November 2005, when he was named a Distinguished Fellow. He joined the Board of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in 2004 and was elected president in 2007. In January 2008, he assumed a half-time appointment at Stone Barns, dividing his time between Iowa and New York, to explore ways that rural and urban communities can work together to develop a more resilient, sustainable agriculture and food system.
In April 2010, the University Press of Kentucky is publishing a book of Kirschenmann's essays edited by New Mexico State University agricultural economist Connie Falk. The book, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher, follows his writing on farming, philosophy and sustainability. He has published articles in other books including Farm Aid: A Song for America, Agroecosystems Analysis and Sustainable Agroecosystem Management.
Kirschenmann also is a board member for the Food Alliance, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area and the Nature Institute. He chairs and is a charter member of the Whiterock Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that manages a 1,300-acre conservation area in west-central Iowa. Kirschenmann helped convene and continues to be active on Agriculture of the Middle, a multi-state task force that focuses on research and markets for midsize American farms. In 2008, he received the first-ever Medal for Distinguished Leadership in Sustainable Agriculture from the Glynwood Center in New York and was selected for Plenty magazine's Top 20 list of people dedicated to sustainability.
His academic credits include several years teaching and as administrator, culminating in a position as academic dean at Curry College in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1976 he returned to the family farm when his father became ill. By 1980, the farm was certified organic, one of the early operations to make the transition. The farm is a natural prairie livestock grazing system that combines a nine-crop rotation of cereal grains, forages, and green manure.
Kirschenmann Family Farms has been part of a number of research studies. It also has been featured in national publications including National Geographic, the Smithsonian, Audubon, Business Week, the LA Times and Gourmet magazine. In 1995, Kirschenmann was profiled in an award-winning video, “My Father's Garden,” by Miranda Productions, Inc.
In 1978, Kirschenmann helped organize North Dakota Natural Farmers that later became the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society. He helped found and for 10 years was president of Farm Verified Organic, Inc., an international private certification agency.
In 2001, Kirschenmann received the Seventh Generation Research Award from the Center for Rural Affairs for his work in sustainable food and farming systems. He also was named a 2002 Leader of the Year in Agriculture by Progressive Farmer publications.
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture was created by the Iowa Legislature to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are both profitable and conserve natural resources.
Partner
Hogan Lovells
Joseph Levitt is a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He focuses on the development and implementation of legislative and regulatory policy regarding the manufacture and marketing of food, drugs, and medical devices and how to work effectively with the FDA and related agencies. Joe also brings indepth knowledge to a wide range of matters, including food and drug safety, biotechnology, labeling, advertising, and bioterrorism.
For six years, from February 1998 through December 2003, Joe served as Director ofthe FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), where he led successful efforts to modernize food safety regulation and enhance the security of the U.S. food supply. He also initiated a revitalization of FDA's nutrition program. During his FDA tenure, Joe also helped streamline the new drug review process and launch the agency's food labeling initiative. Additionally, he served as Deputy Director for Regulations and Policy at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He began his FDA career in the Office of Chief Counsel.
Since joining Hogan & Hartson in January 2004, Joe counsels numerous food, drug and device companies and trade associations regarding compliance with federal laws and regulations.
Professor of Food Policy
Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University
Will Masters joined the Friedman School in July 2010, after more than 18 years in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He is editor of Agricultural Economics, the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and has written or edited several books including Economics of Agricultural Development (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010) and Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa (World Bank, 2009). His most recent research focuses on child undernutrition (“Effects and determinants of mild underweight among preschool children across countries and over time” in Economics and Human Biology, 2010), and the development of new incentive mechanisms for the pursuit of public policy objectives (“Entry into winner-take-all and proportional-prize contests: An experimental study” in Journal of Public Economics, 2010). Prof. Masters attended Deep Springs College (1979-81), thengraduated from Yale University (1984), and received a Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University (1991). He has also been a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (1988-1990), a visiting scholarat Harvard University (2000), a visiting professor at Columbia University (2003-04), and a consultant to various organizations. He is chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees for Deep Springs College.
National Institute for Food and Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dr. Otto is the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, with responsibilities for food and community resources. From 2007 until September of 2009, Dr. Otto served as the Associate Administrator of USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).
Prior to 2007, Dr. Otto served as the Deputy Administrator for the Plant and Animal Systems (PAS) unit of CSREES. In this capacity, he was responsible for the management of substantial portions of Hatch research and Smith-Lever extension funds, certain competitive grant programs, and numerous special research projects.
Dr. Otto has been with USDA since 1980 in a variety of positions that span rural development, natural resources, the environment, and international development. From 1980 through 1989, Dr. Otto worked with USDA's Office of International Cooperation and Development, holding positions in both training and technical assistance. His original interest in international development stems from working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia in the early 1970s.
Dr. Otto is a native of New Jersey, and a current resident of northern Virginia. He is proud to have three degrees from land grant universities: a B.S. degree from Rutgers, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, the latter two degrees with emphasis on the quantitative aspects of wildlife biology.
Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College
Adjunct Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Robert Paarlberg, a researcher and consultant on international food and agricultural policy, is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Adjunct Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His book, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa, was published in 2008 by Harvard University Press, with a foreword by Norman Borlaug and Jimmy Carter.
In 2009 he was the principal writer of a bipartisan report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty. His latest book, Food Politics: What Everybody Needs to Know, was published in March 2010 by Oxford University Press. He has served on the board of Winrock International and has been a consultant to the International Food Policy Research Institute, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa, the World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is currently a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Academies, and an Associate at the Weatherhead Center forInternational Affairs at Harvard. He received his B.A. in political science from Carleton College and his PhD in Government from Harvard University.
Chief, Nutrition Section, Programme Division,
UNICEF
Mr. Schultink joined UNICEF in April 1999 and has held a number of senior positions both at Headquarters in New York, where he was a Senior Nutrition Advisor, and in the India Country Office, where he led the Child Development and Nutrition Section.
Before joining UNICEF, Mr. Schultink had extensive experience working with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation from 1990 to 1999. He served as an advisor on issues of curriculum development of post-graduate courses and research management in community nutrition.
He attended the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Human Nutrition in 1990. His doctoral research led him to Benin where he studied seasonal variations in the nutritional status and energy requirements of rural Beninese women.
Mr. Schultink has written extensively about nutrition issues in the developing world in both academic journals and specialized books. Mr. Schultink assumed his duties as Chief, Nutrition Section at UNICEF's Programme Division in New York in June, 2007.
Mr. Schultink is a national of the Netherlands. In addition to his native Dutch, he is fluent in English, German and French and has a good knowledge of Indonesian.
Mr. Schultink is married and has three children.
Director, Alan Shawn Feinstein International Center
Tufts University
After 25 years of field work in humanitarian crises around the world, Dr. Peter Walker, was appointed, in September 2002, as the Director of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. At the Center he leads a team of 30 academics and practitioners working on policy and practice issues in the fields of humanitarian action, human security and human rights.
In 2007 Dr. Walker was made Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security and in 2008 he received the American College of Nutrition's annual Humanitarian Award.
After researching disaster prevention strategies in Bukino Fasso and Libya in the early 1980's, Dr. Walker played a major role in managing the relief response to the 1984-85 famine in the Sudan. From this field experience came a major publication on famine early warning systems which set the tone for the early warning debate of the late 1980s. Moving to Ethiopia Dr. Walker established a long term development programme in the Ethiopian Rift Valley and was instrumental in introducing the modern techniques of Rapid Rural Appraisal to the aid community there and experimenting with micro-catchment water harvesting techniques.
Joining the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 1990 Dr Walker was involved in needs assessment and evaluation missions, both for the Federation and for joint UN-Donor groupings, in the former Soviet states, Iran, Pakistan, Former Yugoslavia, The Horn of Africa, Namibia, Malawi, Somalia and the Great Lakes region.
As Director of the Disaster Policy Department he was instrumental in championing the need to professionalize the disaster response business, developing the global Code of Conduct for disaster relief workers, lecturing on disaster response in a number of European universities and steering the development of the international Sphere standards,, a major NGO and UN collaborative effort to develop universal competence standards in humanitarian assistance. In 1993 Dr Walker founded the annual World Disasters Report which has now become one of the standard reference texts in the humanitarian business.
In 2000 Dr Walker moved to Bangkok, Thailand, as Director for Red Cross programming across the SE Asia region, leaving to join Tufts university in 2002.
At the Feinstein Intentional Center Dr Walker is actively involved in research examining the future global drivers of humanitarian crises, the effectiveness of international humanitarian systems and the role of spirituality in recovery from crisis.
In the past decade Dr Walker has published in the academic and popular press on themes as diverse as the relationship between the military and humanitarian efforts, the use of local knowledge and skills in relief, the co-ordination of international relief programmes and the humanitarian effects of economic sanctions and climate change. His recent book, with Feinstein Center Faculty member Dr Dan Maxwell, Shaping the Humanitarian World, provides a robust history of humanitarianism linked to an inquiry into its future as a global venture.
He is a keen runner and a lapsed mandolin player.
Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Margo Wootan is the director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), one of the country's leading health advocacy organizations that specializes in food, nutrition, and public health issues. Dr. Wootan received her B.S. in nutrition from Cornell University and her doctorate in nutrition from Harvard University's School of Public Health. She has published scholarly papers in the areas of food marketing to children, nutrition labeling, nutrition education, social marketing, and fatty acid transport.
Wootan co-founded and coordinates the activities of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA), a coalition of more than 275 national, state and local organizations. She is a member of the National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance Steering Committee.
Dr. Wootan led the successful effort to require trans fat labeling on packaged foods. She also is a national leader for improving school foods, requiring calorie labeling in fast-food and other chain restaurants, expanding nutrition and physical activity promotion and funding, and reducing junk-food marketing aimed at children. She is the director of CSPI's award-winning 1% Or Less campaign, a community-based nutrition promotion program.
Dr. Wootan is quoted regularly in the nation's major media and served as an advisor to and appeared in the movie Super Size Me. Wootan has testified before Congress and state legislatures and been invited to speak by federal and state agencies including at the National Nutrition Summit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Academies' Institute of Medicine, and the Surgeon General's Listening Session for the National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity.
Dr. Wootan has been recognized for her outstanding leadership and dedicated service and won awards from the American Public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors, the Society for Nutrition Education, the Society for Prevention Research, and the National Health Information Awards.
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