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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

Where we work

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.


Kate Ambler

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Kate Amber is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Kate’s research broadly focuses on interventions that can increase incomes for smallholders and other microenterprises in agrifood value chains, with a specific focus on the inclusion of women. This includes work on programming in fragile settings, innovations in agricultural finance, and regulatory solutions for food safety. She also studies policies and programs that can improve women’s agency, migration and remittances, and measurement issues.

Kate has experience with research conducted using randomized controlled trials, framed field experiments, and secondary data, and she has worked on projects in Africa south of the Sahara, Central and South America, and Asia. She has also been an adjunct professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She completed a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan, specializing in development economics and economic demography.


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