Ann Tutwiler is the Managing Director, Agricultural Markets, for the Global Development Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. As the Hewlett Foundation’s first managing director for trade and development, she created the initial trade and development grant strategy within the Global Development Program and manages a $22 million grant portfolio of policy research and advocacy grantees spread across the United States, the European Union, South America and Africa.  In addition, she has built coalitions of grantees working to reform U.S. farm policies and U.S. preference policies and also developed and implemented a new strategic plan with a focus on improving agricultural and agribusiness markets in Africa.

She joined 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.  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, Ms. Tutwiler was a policy associate at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy, where she published dozens of articles and edited two books on international agriculture policies, and speaks widely on a variety of agricultural policy issues.

Ms. Tutwiler received a B.A. 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 Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa.