Frank Place is a Senior Advisor in the Director General’s Office. Until 2022, he was Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). Before being appointed PIM Director, Frank served for four years as a Senior Research Fellow in the PIM Program Management Unit. His primary duties included coordination of impact assessment and leadership of the program’s cluster of work on technology adoption and impact. Before joining PIM, Dr. Place worked for the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) for 20 years, based in Nairobi, where his main research areas were adoption of agroforestry, land and tree tenure, and soil fertility management. Prior to ICRAF, Frank led a Land Tenure Center project based in Africa and worked at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, where he focused on property rights in agriculture. Frank Place received a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1988.