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Ann Tutwiler joins the Hewlett Foundation after serving for four years as president and chief executive officer of the International Food & Agriculture Trade Policy Council, an organization that she co-founded in 1987. The International Policy Council is dedicated to developing and advocating policies that support an efficient and open global food system and sustainable production and distribution of safe, accessible food supplies. She served as Associate Director of the Council from its inception until 1992. Between 1992 and 2002, she was Director of Government Relations for the North American oilseed crushing and corn refining companies of Eridania Beghin-Say, the French food producer.
Previously, Tutwiler was a policy associate at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy, where she wrote papers on agricultural trade and the relationship between agricultural development and poverty alleviation, among other issues. She was also a policy analyst and Presidential Management Intern at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has published dozens of articles and edited two books on international agriculture policies, and speaks widely on a variety of agricultural policy issues.
Tutwiler received a BA from Davidson College and a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She recently received the John W. Kuykendall Alumni Service Award from Davidson College for her work in agricultural trade and development. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council for the Dean Rusk International Studies Program at Davidson College, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Fertilizer Development Center and the Grains and Oilseeds Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee. | 