Ann Tutwiler

M. Ann Tutwiler
Born
Margaret Ann Tutwiler

(1958-01-23)January 23, 1958
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAgriculturalist
Years active35
Known forDirector General of Bioversity International

Ann Tutwiler (born 23 January 1958) is a Senior Fellow with Meridian Institute and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Food Forward Consortium and formerly was the senior advisor to the Just Rural Transition. She also chairs the Expert Review Committee for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark for the World Benchmarking Alliance. Previously, she was the Director General of Bioversity International from July 2013 to February 2019 and the first woman Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 2011 to November 2012. In 2022, she has been awarded the John Knox Batten Teaching Fellowship in Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina where she taught two undergraduate classes in food systems transformation.