Gary Burniske  is currently the Managing Director of the Center for Global Food Security within Discovery Park at Purdue University. He is responsible for the day to day management of the Center and networks with Purdue’s faculty and scientists to take a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling global challenges affecting food security. Before joining Purdue, Gary served as Country Director for Mercy Corps in Colombia and Tajikistan, and Country Director for the Institute for Sustainable Communities in Russia. He also worked as Regional Technical Advisor in Agriculture and Natural Resources with CARE covering 25 countries in Asia and Latin America. He speaks to us about the transition from emergency to development work, food for work programs, politicization of funding and the role of donors, behaviour change, working as a country director, clustering of programs, plan for phasing out vs continuous problems at different time periods, the role of the military in aid, the complexities of drug policies, working in academia and much more. He joins us from Lafayette, USA. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/rethinkingdevelopment)