- Kristin Davis, a U.S. national, is seconded to the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services based in Zurich, Switzerland. She joined IFPRI in November 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked in agricultural development ...
- Kuntal joined IFPRI in 2009. He is working as a Country Coordinator for the Monitoring & Evaluation component of Alive & Thrive Initiative in Bangladesh. Kuntal is a medical doctor, trained later in public health and international ...
- Laurian Unnevehr is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets and Trade Division, leading research on enhancing nutrition and food safety in value chains. During a thirty year career as an agricultural economist, Laurian has held positions at the ...
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- Liangzhi You, a senior scientist, joined IFPRI in 2000 to conduct research on agricultural science and technology policy. Liangzhi earned a B.S. in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and an M.S. in environmental economics ...
- Man Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Man has a solid research background in the area of natural resource and environmental economics ...
- Manuel Hernandez joined IFPRI in July 2009 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2012. He received his PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University in August 2009. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from ...
- Margaret McMillan is an associate professor of economics at Tufts University. She has published widely in the areas of international trade and investment focusing primarily on developing countries. Understanding the distributional consequences of ...
- Awards: Futures Agricultures Consortium Early Career Fellowship (Youth theme) 2012 South African Association of Women Graduates International Fellowship Award 2010 Winner of the second prize for outstanding oral presentation by a ...
- Megan Parker joined IFPRI in August 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division. Before joining IFPRI, Megan collected data in Kenya and Malawi on issues including indigenous diets, implementation of the HIV and ...
- Melissa is a post-doctoral fellow in the Poverty Health and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of development economics, early childhood ...
- Michael Johnson, a research fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division, joined IFPRI in 2002 after serving two years at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as an American Association for the Advancement of ...
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- Mourad joined IFPRI in 2009 as a nutritionist in HarvestPlus. His current research focuses on the evaluation of the usefulness of biofortified crops for the reduction of malnutrition in the developing world. Before joining IFPRI, Mourad worked in ...
- Nancy Johnson is an agricultural economist who studies the economic, poverty and gender impacts of agricultural and natural resource management research and development. Working with partners, she has analyzed the impacts of crop and livestock ...
- Nazaire Houssou is an agricultural economist and postdoctoral fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD), which he joined in 2012. Nazaire received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim, Germany ...
- Neha Kumar is a Research Fellow in the Poverty Health and Nutrition Division at IFPRI where she joined as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. An economist by training, she has research experience in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, in countries such ...
- Nicholas W. Minot is a senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. Since joining IFPRI in 1997 as a post-doctoral fellow, he has carried out research on the agricultural market reform in Africa, fertilizer policy, ...
- Nienke Beintema is head of the Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative. The ASTI initiatve involves collaborative alliances with a large number of national and regional R&D agencies as well as international ...
- Nurul Islam of Bangladesh joined IFPRI as a senior policy adviser to the director general in 1987. He is currently a research fellow emeritus. Prior to this he was the assistant director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, ...
- Olivier Ecker is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Olivier is an economist specializing in development strategy and policies for poverty reduction ...
- Oluyemisi Kuku joined IFPRI in February 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow in the IFPRI Nigeria office. Her research is focused on food insecurity, nutrition and health, as well as issues pertaining to social capital and technology adoption. Her most ...
- Paswel Marenya joined the IFPRI in March 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow. His research runs through three interrelated strands on rural development. The first is on how to create publicly supported but market-mediated incentive systems for ...
- Patrick Ward joined IFPRI as a postdoctoral fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division in April 2012. He will be based in the New Delhi office, from where he will contribute to the ongoing work of the Cereal Systems Initiative ...
- Phuong Hong Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, and is based at the Alive & Thrive (A&T) office in Hanoi, Viet Nam. She is a medical doctor and has served as an Ob/Gyn for over 12 years at ...
- Purnima Menon is Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, and is based at IFPRI’s Asia office in New Delhi, India. She conducts applied nutrition research in the South Asia region, with a focus on programs and policies ...
- Rahul Rawat joined IFPRI in September 2007 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division. At IFPRI, he conducts research on HIV and nutrition within the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) ...
- Rasmi Avula joined the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division of IFPRI in January 2011. She received a PhD in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in 2010 from the University of South Carolina and MS in Nutrition from South Carolina State ...
- Ricky Robertson joined IFPRI in 2008. Prior to that he completed environmental and water related post-docs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Agricultural and Consumer Economics ...
- Ruth Hill is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets Trade and Institutions division of IFPRI. She joined IFPRI in 2007 as a post-doctoral fellow in the Director General’s Office. Ruth has 9 years experience conducting research on rural markets ...
- Ruth Meinzen-Dick joined IFPRI in 1989. She is Coordinator of the CGIAR program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). Her research deals with water resource management, land, forests, property rights, collective action, and the impact ...
- Sam is a graduate of University of Ghana, Legon (BS, 1988), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS, 1993) and University of California, Davis (PhD, 1998), with specialty in econometrics, natural resource economics and development economics. Sam ...
- Dr. Samuel Morley is a senior visiting research fellow at IFPRI. He has published monographs on poverty and distribution in Latin America, conditioned cash transfers and the effect of CAFTA in Central America. During his 25 years at the ...







































