Senior Research Staff

Afua Banful

Afua Branoah Banful joined the Development Strategy and Governance group of IFPRI in August 2008. She has a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering (2003) and a BSc in Economics (2003) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD ...
Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing, a research fellow, co-leads a research program analyzing the factors that enable individuals, households, and communities to move out of poverty over the long term. Her past work at IFPRI focused on how resource allocation ...
Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a senior research fellow who co-leads IFPRI's Global and Regional Program on Large-Scale Human Capital Interventions. He joined IFPRI in 1990. He works on strategies for restructuring social protection and safety net programs to ...
Alan de Brauw
Alejandro Nin Pratt

Agricultural Economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since 2005. His research topics are development, economic growth and growth linkages and poverty, agricultural productivity and trade. He has also worked in ...
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Alex De Pinto

Dr. Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Prior to joining IFPRI he was ...
Amber Peterman

More about Amber Peterman in Google Scholar Amber joined IFPRI in July 2009 and works primarily on cross-cutting gender and development related research including the strengthening women’s assets program. She has particular interest in ...
Andrew Dillon

Andrew joined IFPRI in July 2007 as a Research Analyst. Before coming to IFPRI, he conducted his dissertation field research in Mali where he extended a panel data set from 1997 and conducted a larger cross-sectional survey of 2,100 households ...
Angelino Viceisza

Angelino C. G. Viceisza obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University in December 2007. His fields of interest are game theory and econometrics, specifically applied to questions in experimental and development economics. Angelino ...
Anna-Marie Ball
Antoine Bouet

Antoine Bouet joined IFPRI in February 2005 as senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division to conduct research on Global Trade Modeling, trade policies, regional agreements and multilateral trade negotiations. Antoine ...
Avril Armstrong
Babatunde Omilola

Babatunde Omilola joined IFPRI in April 2008 as the Coordinator of the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), a large inter-Center initiative established to support the implementation of the Comprehensive African ...
Bart Minten

Bart Minten, a Belgian citizen, joined IFPRI as a senior research fellow in December 2006. His research at the New Delhi office will focus on the effects of agri-business development and changes in agricultural marketing on the structure of food ...
Betina Dimaranan

Betina Dimaranan joined the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at IFPRI as a Research Fellow in July 2007. She is a member of the Globalization and Markets team and currently conducts research on global trade modeling, multilateral and ...
Bingxin Yu

Bingxin Yu joined the Development Strategy and Governance Division of IFPRI in 2004 as a research analyst to work on development strategy issues. She has a B.S. in Management Science from University of Science and Technology of China, M.S. in ...
Carlos Martins-Filho
Catherine Ragasa

Catherine Ragasa received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University in 2008 and holds a Masters in Economics from University of the Philippines-School of Economics. More about Catherine Ragasa in Google Scholar Prior ...
Clare Narrod

Clare Narrod, a senior research fellow in the Markets Trade and Institutions, joined IFPRI in August 2005 to lead a program in Food and Water Safety. She is also Deputy Director of the ILRI/IFPRI Program on Livestock Markets. She is a member of ...
Claudia Ringler

Claudia Ringler, a citizen of Germany, joined IFPRI in 1996. Her research interests are water resources management--in particular, river basin management--and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. Moreover, she is ...
Clemens Breisinger

Clemens is an economist specializing in development strategy analysis and impact assessment. His current research focuses on designing food security strategies, managing resource booms and prioritizing rural investments using economy-wide models ...
Daniel Gilligan

Dan Gilligan joined IFPRI as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2002 and is now a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division. His research addresses the economics of household investments in childhood education and nutrition ...
Daniela Horna

Daniela Horna, Postdoctoral Fellow. Agricultural economist holds PhD in agricultural economics and social sciences from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She has gained international working experience through research and development ...
David Laborde Debucquet

Dr David Laborde Debucquet has joined IFPRI, Washington DC, in 2007. He is a Research Fellow and co-leader of the “Globalization and markets” research project inside the Markets, Trade and Institutions division. Prior going to Washington, he was ...
David Orden

David Orden joined IFPRI in August 2003 as senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division to conduct research on agricultural policy and international trade, including the impacts of industrialized country agricultural ...
David Spielman

David J. Spielman, a U.S. national, joined IFPRI in 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow based in Addis Ababa. His current research examines the role and impact of public-private collaboration in pro-poor agricultural research. Prior to this, Dr. ...
Deanna Olney
Derek Headey

Derek Headey is a research fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where he joined as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. A development economist, his research ...
Devesh Roy

Devesh Roy, who joined IFPRI in 2004 as a post doctoral fellow, conducts research on international economics with focus on product standards in international trade. His other areas of research are international migration, economic growth and ...
Disha Ali
Eduardo Maruyama
Ekin Birol

Ekin joined the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division of IFPRI in July 2007, as a member of the Food and Water Safety team. From 2004 to 2007 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, she ...
Ephraim Nkonya

Ephraim Nkonya, a research fellow, conducts research on land management and natural resources in sub-Saharan countries and central Asia. Ephraim, a citizen of Tanzania, earned a B.S. in agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture and an ...
Erick Boy
Fabiana DeMoura

Fabiana De Moura is a Nutritionist Research Fellow at HarvestPlus responsible for managing the nutrition research component of 4 biofortified crops: banana, cassava, sorghum, and rice under the auspices of the Grand Challenges in Global Health, a ...
Fleur Wouterse

Fleur joined IFPRI in September 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow with DGO. She received her PhD in Development Economics in 2006 from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. For the writing of her doctoral dissertation she collected rural household ...
Futoshi Yamauchi

Futoshi Yamauchi joined IFPRI in 2002, after working as a lecturer at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University and as an associate professor at the International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University. In ...
Gerald Nelson

Gerald (Jerry) Nelson is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He is an agricultural economist with over 30 years of professional and research experience in the areas of agriculture, policy ...
Gian Nicola Francesconi

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