Anderson is a 26-year journalist in print, broadcast and Internet media, with a career that has included work at CNN USA, CNN International, CNN.com, The Village Voice (New York) and The Dallas Times-Herald.

Anderson holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan and Florida State University, has read psychology and the arts at the University of Bath, England, and is a Fellow of the National Critics Institute based in New London, Connecticut.

He is currently based at WFP's headquarters in Rome.