Dan Mullins is an independent consultant working on the relationships among sustainable agriculture systems, food and nutrition security, community management of natural resources and ecosystems services, and land tenure. He has 35 years of experience designing, managing and advising international development and conservation programs, with particular attention to impacts on resource-poor vulnerable people.

Prior to his consulting career, Dan was director of the Research Learning and Advocacy for CARE's global Food and Nutrition Security Team. He previously served as CARE’s deputy regional director for Program Quality in the Southern Africa Regional Management Unit. He was Oxfam’s Regional HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods coordinator for southern and West Africa where he led the organization's approach to mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in Livelihoods with emphasis on agriculture to support income and nutritional outcomes.

Dan received his master’s degree in adult, continuing and extension education at Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree in international affairs at the University of Iowa.