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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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Where we work

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


Rowena Valmonte-Santos

Senior Research Analyst

Rowena Valmonte-Santos

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Rowena Andrea Valmonte-Santos is a Senior Research Analyst in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. Her current work focuses on natural resource management with emphasis on food security in developing countries, participatory approaches to community-based fisheries management and gender, threats and opportunities of climate change, and to some extent biosafety and biotechnology in selected Asian countries. She has conducted trainings on common tools used for surveys in social science research and water quality assessment for collaborators from government and non-government organizations and universities in Asia.

Rowena joined IFPRI as a Program Analyst in 2003, and then became a Research Analyst in the former Environment and Production Technology Division. Prior to joining IFPRI, Rowena worked as an Assistant Scientist in Policy Research and Impact Assessment Program, WorldFish Center, Malaysia. A citizen of the Philippines, Rowena received her MSc in Environmental Studies from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.

Languages spoken: English, Filipino


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