Dante Toppo
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, POLICY INITIATIVES
Dante and his team lead GFI’s strategy for policy innovations that unlock opportunities for alternative proteins in the U.S. and around the world.
Areas of expertise: Policy advocacy and strategy; Diplomacy; Coalition-building
Dante uses he/him pronouns.
Dante joined GFI after a decade as a foreign policy practitioner including overseas as a diplomat at the U.S. Department of State, where managed policy initiatives spanning multilateral diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific, emergency humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, and global food security. Dante has lived and worked across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. He holds a Masters of Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelors of International Relations from Claremont McKenna College. He is originally from Ashland, Oregon.
