Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. Stuart worked with a range of UN agencies across the world, before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999. Here he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security, the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy. Stuart’s newsletter, Food Fight Files, tackles the political and commercial drivers of food injustice and malnutrition and what can and should be done about them.

Dolly van Tulleken is a researcher specialising in government policy processes and the use of evidence in policymaking, with a particular focus on public health and epidemiology. Her work examines how policy entrepreneurs and policymakers influence legislative change in England, as well as how they engage with and apply public health research in shaping policy decisions. Her research has been published in leading journals such as The Milbank Quarterly, BMJ Open, PLOS One, and Public Health Nutrition, with a focus on food policy, obesity strategies, and the role of government interventions in improving public health outcomes. Dolly’s expertise lies in analysing policy effectiveness and identifying the mechanisms that drive meaningful public health change.