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FOOD FOR EDUCATION: Feeding Minds Reduces Poverty
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Expert Bios
PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN Per Pinstrup-Andersen has been IFPRI's director general since 1992. A native of Denmark, Pinstrup-Andersen was a professor of food economics and director of the Food and Nutrition Policy Program at Cornell University. Before his teaching and research positions at Cornell, Pinstrup-Andersen served as director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Policy Program at IFPRI, director of the Agro-Economic Division at the International Fertilizer Development Center in the United States, an agricultural economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia, and an associate professor at the Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. Pinstrup-Andersen is a member of several expert committees, including the National Research Council's Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment under the; the State Department's Working Committee on Biotechnology, and the World Health Policy. He is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pinstrup-Andersen's awards include the Distinguished Alumnus of the Economics Institute of the University of Colorado and Oklahoma State University, a Ph.D. Thesis Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Charles A. Black Award for outstanding record of research and communication, and the Danish Agronomy Prize. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, and he has written more than 300 books, articles, and papers.
AKHTER AHMED Akhter Ahmed joined IFPRI in 1990 and began work in Bangladesh on targeted interventions for improving the food security and nutrition of the poor. From 1996 to 1999 he lead IFPRI's collaborative project on food security research in Egypt. There he studied options for restructuring food subsidies, generating employment for poverty reduction, and liberalizing grain markets. Currently based at IFPRI headquarters in Washington, DC, he is managing a project that monitors poverty in Malawi and is involved in evaluating social safety net programs in Bangladesh. Before coming to IFPRI, Ahmed worked with the World Bank and as an agricultural economist for the U.S. Agency for International Development. A native of Bangladesh, Ahmed received a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Colorado State University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and an M.S. and B.S. in the same subject from Bangladesh Agricultural University.
WERNER KIENE Werner Kiene became the World Food Representative to the Bretton Woods Institutions in Washington, DC last year. Kiene has been with WFP since 1994 and served as the first director of their Office of Evaluations. From 1998 to 2000, he was the WFP representative and UN coordinator in Bangladesh. Before his current position, Kiene was at the Ford Foundation (1972-1981), where he worked in collaboration with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, and participated in the founding of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Kiene also spent two years at the International Institute for Applied Systems and thee years working at the German Technical Cooperation. Kiene, a native of Austria, has a Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics and a Masters of Science in agricultural trade issues from Michigan State University. |
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