Christopher Dunford is President of Freedom From Hunger, an international development organization working in seventeen countries across the globe

Chris has over 30 years of rural development experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. He joined Freedom from Hunger in 1984 as Director, Arizona Programs and then became Regional Director, U.S. Programs; Director, International Operations; and Vice President for Programs prior to becoming President. Chris was co-creator of the Credit with Education methodology and now provides organizational leadership and speaks and writes for international audiences on the impacts of microfinance for the chronically hungry poor, on measurement and management toward social objectives, and on integration of microfinance with lifeskills education and health protection. Before joining Freedom from Hunger, Chris worked for the U.N. Environment Program in Kenya and then for USAID contractors in Tanzania, Botswana, Egypt, Cote d'Ivoire, and the Sudan. Chris has a PhD in ecology (University of Arizona in Tucson) and a BS in biological sciences (Cornell University).