Senior Management Team

Shenggen Fan (樊胜根) Director General	Rajul Pandya-Lorch Head 2020 Vision Initiative and...
Paul Dorosh Division Director, DSG	Mark Rosegrant Division Director, EPT
Marie Ruel Division Director, PHN	Maximo Torero Division Director, MTI
Gwendolyn Stansbury Division Director, Communications...	David Governey Division Director, Finance &...
Ousmane Badiane Director for Africa	P. K. Joshi Director for South Asia

CGIAR Research Program Directors

Karen Brooks Director, CGIAR Research Program...

John McDermott Director, CGIAR Research Program...

Senior Research Staff

Kaikaus Ahmad Deputy Chief of Party	Nuzhat Ahmad Senior Research Fellow
Akhter Ahmed Senior Research Fellow / Chief of...	Kamiljon Akramov Research Fellow
Harold Alderman Senior Research Fellow	Kate Ambler Associate Research Fellow
Rasmi Avula Associate Research Fellow	Carlo Azzarri Research Fellow
Suresh Babu Senior Research Fellow	Thaddée Badibanga Associate Research Fellow
Godfrey Bahiigwa Office Head, ESARO	Anna-Marie Ball Senior Research Fellow/ Country...
Elodie Becquey Research Fellow	Nienke Beintema Program Head
Andrew Bell Research Fellow	Samuel Benin Research Fellow
Todd Benson Senior Research Fellow	Guush Berhane Associate Research Fellow
Tanguy Bernard Research Fellow	Ekin Birol Impact and Policy Coordinator
Antoine Bouet Senior Research Fellow	Howarth Bouis Program Director - HarvestPlus
Erick Boy Senior Research Fellow	Clemens Breisinger Research Fellow
Judy Chambers Director - Program for Biosafety...	Antony Chapoto Research Fellow
Kevin Chen (陈志钢) Senior Research Fellow	Remileku Cole Research Coordinator
Stephen Davies Senior Research Fellow	Kristin Davis Research Fellow
Alan de Brauw Senior Research Fellow	Alex De Pinto Senior Research Fellow
Clara Delavallade Research Fellow	Xinshen Diao Deputy Division Director, DSG
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla Visiting Senior Research Fellow	Betina Dimaranan Research Fellow
Olivier Ecker Research Fellow	Jose Falck-Zepeda Senior Research Fellow
John Fiedler Senior Research Fellow	Mateusz Filipski Associate Research Fellow
Ismael Fofana Research Fellow	Gissele Gajate Garrido Research Fellow
Samuel Gameda Senior Research Fellow	James Garrett Senior Research Fellow
Getaw Tadesse Gebreyohanes Associate Research Fellow	Aulo Gelli Senior Scientist
Yashodhan Ghorpade Visiting Fellow	Stuart Gillespie Senior Research Fellow
Daniel Gilligan Senior Research Fellow	Susan Godlonton Associate Research Fellow
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong Senior Research Fellow	Hosaena Ghebru Hagos Associate Research Fellow
Beliyou Haile Associate Research Fellow	Derek Headey Research Fellow
Jessica Heckert Associate Research Fellow	Manuel Hernandez Research Fellow
Ricardo Hernandez Associate Research Fellow	Melissa Hidrobo Research Fellow
Kalle Hirvonen Associate Research Fellow	John Hoddinott Senior Research Fellow and Deputy...
Jessica Hoel Associate Research Fellow	Vivian Hoffmann Research Fellow
Nazaire Houssou Associate Research Fellow	Nurul Islam Research Fellow Emeritus
Monica Jain Associate Research Fellow	Michael Johnson Research Fellow
Nancy Johnson Senior Research Fellow	Kelly Jones Associate Research Fellow
Nassul Kabunga Associate Research Fellow	Naureen Karachiwalla Associate Research Fellow
Sunny Kim Associate Research Fellow	Avinash Kishore Associate Research Fellow
Shashidhara Kolavalli Senior Research Fellow	Jawoo Koo Research Fellow
Katrina Kosec Research Fellow	Berber Kramer Associate Research Fellow
Oluyemisi Kuku Associate Research Fellow	Neha Kumar Research Fellow
Ho Young Kwon Research Fellow	David Laborde Debucquet Senior Research Fellow
Agnes Le Port Research Fellow	Jef Leroy Research Fellow
Man Li Research Fellow	Yanyan Liu Research Fellow
Xingliang Ma Associate Research Fellow	Athur Mabiso Associate Research Fellow
Hazel Malapit Research Coordinator	Mariam Mapila Associate Research Fellow
Cecile Martignac Visiting Fellow	Carlos Martins-Filho Senior Research Fellow
Eduardo Maruyama Research Fellow	Jean Francois Maystadt Associate Research Fellow
Margaret McMillan Senior Research Fellow	Ruth Meinzen-Dick Senior Research Fellow
Dawit Mekonnen Associate Research Fellow	Purnima Menon Senior Research Fellow
Catherine Meola Associate Research Fellow	Stefan Meyer Associate Research Fellow
Nicholas Minot Senior Research Fellow	Bart Minten Senior Research Fellow
Tewodaj Mogues Senior Research Fellow	Samuel Morley Senior Research Visiting Fellow
Fabiana Moura Research Fellow	Mourad Moursi Research Fellow
Siwa Msangi Senior Research Fellow	Valerie Mueller Research Fellow
Phuong Hong Nguyen Research Fellow	Alejandro Nin Pratt Research Fellow
Ephraim Nkonya Senior Research Fellow	Sunday Odjo Project Coordinator
Deanna Olney Research Fellow	Adewale Oparinde Associate Research Fellow
David Orden Senior Research Fellow	Leonard Oruko Senior Manager of Special ATA...
Karl Pauw Research Fellow	Nicostrato Perez Senior Scientist
Valeria Pineiro Research Coordinator	Agnes Quisumbing Senior Research Fellow
Catherine Ragasa Research Fellow	Shahidur Rashid Senior Research Fellow
Blake Ratner Visiting Senior Research Fellow /...	Rahul Rawat Research Fellow
Danielle Resnick Research Fellow	Claudia Ringler Deputy Division Director, EPT
Richard Robertson Research Fellow	Sherman Robinson Senior Research Fellow
Miguel Robles Research Fellow	Devesh Roy Research Fellow
Shalini Roy Research Fellow	Alexander Saak Research Fellow
Kuntal Kumar Saha Research Fellow	Emily Schmidt Associate Research Fellow
Benjamin Schwab Associate Research Fellow	Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse Senior Research Fellow
David Spielman Senior Research Fellow	Hiroyuki Takeshima Research Fellow
Arame Tall Associate Research Fellow	Timothy Thomas Research Fellow
James Thurlow Senior Research Fellow	Simla Tokgoz Research Fellow
Fousseini Traoré Associate Research Fellow	John Ulimwengu Research Fellow
Laurian Unnevehr Senior Research Fellow	Bjorn Van Campenhout Research Fellow
Teunis van Rheenen Senior Research Fellow	Klaus von Grebmer Research Fellow Emeritus
Patrick Ward Associate Research Fellow	James Warner Research Coordinator
Keith Wiebe Senior Research Fellow	Fleur Wouterse Research Fellow
Hua Xie Research Fellow	Liangzhi You Senior Research Fellow
Bingxin Yu Research Fellow	Wei Zhang Research Fellow
Xiaobo Zhang Senior Research Fellow	Tingju Zhu Research Fellow

Research Support

Ignatius Abaijuka Monitoring and Evaluation...	Zeeshan Abedin Research Analyst
Noora-Lisa Aberman Country Program Coordinator	Malek Abu-Jawdeh Senior Research Assistant
Liliane Adeke Seed System Officer	Margaret Adesugba Senior Research Assistant
Haruna Ahmad Sekabira Research Assistant	Akeem Ajibola Senior Research Assistant
Arifeen Akter Research Analyst	Perrihan Al-Riffai Senior Research Analyst
Miguel Almanzar Senior Research Analyst	Rita Alvarez Martinez Senior Research Assistant
Teresa Andaya Senior Program Analyst	Weston Anderson Senior Research Assistant
Collins Asante-Addo Research Officer	Dorene Asare-Marfo Research Analyst
Maha Ashour Senior Research Assistant	Angella Atero Demand Creation Specialist
Miroslav Batka Research Analyst	Quinn Bernier Research Analyst
Prapti Bhandary Senior Research Assistant	Muhammad Bhuiyan Qualitative Research Coordinator
Lucy Billings Research Analyst	Ousmane Birba Senior Research Assistant
Lilia Bliznashka Senior Research Assistant	Charlotte Block Senior Program Manager
Sylvia Blom Senior Research Assistant	Emily Brearley Research Coordinator
Rachael Brown Senior Research Assistant	Elizabeth Bryan Senior Research Analyst
Francisco Ceballos Research Analyst	Nicola Cenacchi Research Analyst
Suman Chakrabarti Research Assistant	Raj Chandra Senior Research Assistant
Abigail Childs Senior Research Assistant	Noah Cohen-Cline Senior Research Assistant
Julia Collins Senior Research Assistant	Maria Comanescu Research Analyst
Andrew Comstock Senior Research Assistant	Frances Cossar Research Analyst
Anabelle Couleau Senior Research Assistant	Cindy Cox Technical Writer
Sunipa Das Gupta Senior Research Analyst	Rosamaria Dasso Research Assistant
Nirupam Datta Research Analyst	Lauren Deason Senior Research Analyst
Samson Dejene Senior Research Assistant	Luciana Delgado Research Assistant
Neelakshi Dhar Program Assistant	Alimatou Diop Research Assistant
Michael Tedla Diressie Senior Research Assistant	Hyacinth Edeh Senior Research Assistant
Maribel Elias Research Analyst	Chinonso Ezenwa Etumnu Senior Research Assistant
Jenna Ferguson Senior Research Analyst	Kathleen Flaherty Senior Research Analyst
Jose Funes Research Analyst	Nyillan Fye Program Assistant
Lang Gao Senior Research Assistant	Yoshina Gautam Senior Research Assistant
Sinafikeh Gemessa Senior Research Assistant	Joydeep Ghosh Research Analyst
Anatole Goundan Senior Research Assistant	Arthur Gueneau Research Analyst
Zhe Guo GIS Coordinator	Tekalign Gutu Research Officer
Barbara Ha Senior Research Assistant	Madeeha Hameed Research Assistant
Jody Harris Senior Research Analyst	Akiko Haruna Senior Research Assistant
Brian Holtemeyer Research Assistant	Godwin Horlu Research Officer
Nusrat Zaitun Hossain Research Analyst	Jarilkasin Ilyasov Research Analyst
Elyse Iruhiriye Research Assistant	Shahnila Islam Senior Research Assistant
Shahnila Islam Senior Research Assistant	Samson Jemaneh Research Officer
Samita Kaiser Program Assistant	Godfrey Kalemera Markets and Product Development...
Dieynaba Kane Senior Research Assistant	Edward Kato Senior Research Analyst
Mekamu Kedir Research Analyst	Adam Kennedy Senior Research Analyst
Andrew Kennedy Research Analyst	Adiba Khaled Research Analyst
Huma Khan Senior Research Assistant	Mashrur Khan Research Analyst
Caitlin Kieran Senior Research Assistant	Soonho Kim Web Portal Specialist
Kodjo Aflagah Senior Research Assistant	Neha Kohli Research Analyst
Chiara Kovarik Senior Research Assistant	Laira Kyazike Demand Creation Officer
Ikram Lakhdhar Program Assistant	Natasha Ledlie Research Analyst
Hak Lim Lee Senior Research Assistant	Solomon Lemma Senior Research Assistant
Yifei Liu Communications Specialist	Keith Lividini Research Analyst
Jane Lole Senior Research Assistant	Yehan Long Research Assistant
Patrick Lubega Senior Research Assistant	Moses Lule Marketing and Seed System Officer
Farjana Sharmin Luna Field Research Officer	Sylvia Magezi Acting Project Manager and Demand...
Lea Vicky Magne Domgho Senior Research Assistant	Tsitsi Makombe Program Manager
Mehrab Malek Senior Research Assistant	Christopher Marciniak Research Assistant
Amy Margolies Senior Research Analyst	Ian Masias Research Analyst
Daniel Mason-D'Croz Research Analyst	John Mazunda Policy Analyst
Sarah McMullan Research Assistant	Edina Metili Mwangi Senior Research Assistant
Sumedha Minocha Senior Research Assistant	Michael Murphy Senior Research Assistant
Charles Musoke Seed System Specialist	Eduardo Nakasone Senior Research Analyst
Fiona Nattembo Research Assistant	Vijay Nazareth Senior Research Assistant
Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Ndao Translation and Knowledge...	Akanksha Negi Senior Research Assistant
Ulrike Nischan Country Program Coordinator	Meghan Olivier Project Manager
Tolulope Olofinbiyi Program Manager	Tolulope Olutayo Odetola Senior Research Assistant
Motunrayo Ayowumi Oyeyemi Senior Research Assistant	Kathryn Pace Kincheloe Senior Research Assistant
Divya Pandey Senior Research Assistant	Jay Papisan Senior Program Analyst
Allen Park Research Analyst	Gauthier Pitois Senior Research Assistant
Angga Pradesha Senior Research Assistant	Nilam Prasai Data Curator
Cheng Qiu Senior Research Assistant	Wahid Quabili Research Analyst
S.M. Tahsin Rahaman Field Research Officer	Michael Rahija Research Analyst
Shuchita Rahman Field Research Officer	Waziha Rahman Field Research Officer
Pallavi Rajkhowa Senior Research Assistant	Josee Randriamamonjy Senior Research Analyst
Md. Redoy Field Research Officer	Cleophelia Roberts Senior Research Assistant
Joao Rodrigues Senior Research Assistant	Carmen Ruiz Senior Program Analyst
Alexandra Ruth Research Assistant	Pascale Sabbagh Senior Program Manager
Bradley Sawyer Senior Research Assistant	Ligane Sene Senior Research Assistant
Theresa Sengooba Regional Coordinator /...	Debdatta Sengupta Research Analyst
Fiona Khandoker Shaba Research Assistant	Kavita Singh Senior Research Assistant
Vartika Singh Senior Research Assistant	Vinay Sonkar Senior Research Assistant
Kathryn Sproule Senior Research Assistant	Esha Sraboni Senior Research Analyst
Gert-Jan Stads Senior Program Manager	Celeste Sununtnasuk Senior Research Assistant
Garima Taneja Senior Research Assistant	Mahamadou Tankari Senior Research Assistant
Wondwosen Tefera Research Officer	Maria Theresa Tenorio Senior Admin Coordinator/Contract...
Marcelle Thomas Research Analyst	Nouhoum Traore Program Manager
Jean Francois Trinh Tan Senior Research Assistant	Gaurav Tripathi Research Analyst
Parul Tyagi Research Analyst	Kazi Nazim Uddin Office Assistant
Amarachi Utah Senior Research Assistant	Rowena Valmonte-Santos Senior Research Analyst
Mara van den Bold Research Analyst	Ioannis Vasileiou CCAFS Program Coordinator
Inigo Verduzco Gallo Senior Research Analyst	Jiarui Wang Senior Research Assistant
Peter Wasswa Senior Program Assistant	Edward Whitney Senior Research Assistant
Sileshi Woldeyohannes Senior Research Assistant	Ulrike Wood-Sichra Research Analyst
Amanda Wyatt Senior Research Assistant	Yisehac Yohannes Research Analyst
Sivan Yosef Program Manager	Fatima Zaidi Senior Research Assistant
Saima Zaman Country Office Coordinator	Patricia Zambrano Senior Research Analyst
Elias Zerfu Research Fellow	Laura Zseleczky Senior Research Assistant

Communications Staff

Beverly Abreu Senior Administrative Coordinator	Melanie Allen Senior Website Developer
Luz Marina Alvare Head, Knowledge Management	Evgeniya Anisimova Communications Specialist
Mulugeta Bayeh Senior Website Developer	Terra Carter Discussion Paper Coordinator
Nilar Chit Tun Communications Specialist II	David Cozac Communications Specialist
Vaishali Dassani Communication and Coordination...	Hawa Diop Communications Coordinator
Pat Fowlkes Communications Specialist	Heidi Fritschel Editor
Corinne Garber Communications Specialist	Michael Go Communications Specialist
Sara Gustafson Communications Specialist	Simone Hill-Lee Conference/Meeting Coordinator
Eric Holtzman Receptionist/Communications...	Sarah Immenschuh Brawner Communications Specialist
Joslin Isaacson Communications Specialist I	Yassir Islam Manager of Communications,...
Md. Shafiqul Karim Communications Specialist	Kimberly Keeton Communications Specialist II
Deirdre Launt Graphic Designer	Grace Lerner Communications Intern
Andrew Marble Editor II	Julia McLean Receptionist/Communications...
Ryan Miller Digital Services Librarian	Milo Mitchell Videographer
Su Nu Conference/Meeting Coordinator	Denis Okello Communications Specialist
Andrea Pedolsky Head, Publications Unit	Cristina Perez Knowledge Management Systems...
David Popham Graphics Designer	Mamata Pradhan Senior Communications &...
Mandy Rodrigues Senior Website Developer	Amy Saltzman Communications Specialist
Amanda Segovia Administrative Coordinator	Xinyuan Shang Communications Specialist
Peter Shelton Social Media Coordinator	Rebecca Sullivan Technical Writer
Katarlah Taylor Information and Knowledge...	Addis Tigabu Events, Liaison &...
Vidushi Sinha Vidushi Senior Communications Specialist	Julia Vivalo Graphic Design Coordinator
John Whitehead Communications Specialist	Indira Yerramareddy Information & Knowledge...
Sandra Yin Editor

Key Administrative Staff

James Fields Controller	Alma Lopez Senior HR Advisor
Stacy Roberts Head, Donor Relations and...	Sherian Roggeband Head of Human Resource Services
Tony Thomas Head, Facilities/Office Services	Nancy Walczak Head, Computer Services

Administrative Support

Theodora Adene Program Assistant	Rene Alas Senior Accountant
Alma Alcaraz-Bernardo Senior Administrative Coordinator...	Leonisa Almendrala Senior Contracts and Grants...
Patty Arce Senior Admin Coordinator /...	Lynette Aspillera Senior Admin Coordinator /...
Mariama Ba Office Manager	Mor Badiane Driver
Shaila Arjuman Banu Accounts Specialist	Amina Yakubu Bashir Program Assistant
A. Prodip Bashu Finance and Administrative Manager	Glen Briscoe Senior Facilities Technician
Alexandria Cannon Program Assistant	Kimberlee Chang Administrative Coordinator
Kang Chiu Lead Information Technology...	Bernadette Cordero Executive Secretary to the...
Carlos Cordova Administrative Coordinator	Djhoanna Cruz Administrative Coordinator
Lorena Danessi Administrative Coordinator	Haimanot Debasu Executive Assistant
Tigist Defabachew Senior Administrative Coordinator...	Ibrahima Dia Administrative and Financial...
Fatoumata Diallo Senior Accountant	Yu Dong Program Assistant
Monica Dourado International Recruiter	Jyotsana Dua Senior Administrative Coordinator
Cécile Effila Manager of Administration &...	Caroline Eisel Budget & Contracts Analyst
Joy Fabela Senior Admin Coordinator /...	Monica Fernandez Senior Administrative Coordinator
Yukie Foreman Travel Assistant	Luisa Gaskell Travel Manager
German Gavino Chief Accountant	Susan Germain Senior Contracts and Grants...
Emelyn Go Administrative Coordinator	Darnice Graham Facilities Assistant
Eric Haglund Research Analyst	Hillary Hanson Program Assistant
Jiun Heng Senior Information Technology...	Kwong Hii Senior Information Technology...
Irene Huo Program Assistant	Nazrul Islam IT Specialist
Saiful Islam Administrative Assistant	Linsey Jaco Senior Administrative Coordinator
Dereje Jekale Accountant	Charito Jismundo Travel Assistant
Balaram Joshi Budget & Contracts Analyst	Niko Kakesa Contracts & Grants...
Debbie Kamberengende Administrative Assistant	M. Aminul Islam Khandaker Database Manager
Bijendra Khatri Driver cum General Assistant	Shannon Kincaide Program Assistant
Vickie Lee Senior Administrative Coordinator	Brittany Leoboldt Senior Administrative Coordinator
Yin Leong Team Leader Desktop Support	Hongrui Li Administrative Assistant
Virginia Lloyd Senior HR Assistant	Jean Dominique Lokenye Program Assistant
Brent Lovings Facilities A/V Technician	Paulina Manalansan Staff Accountant
Gayane Markaryan Contracts & Grants...	Charles Marlowe Facilities Technician
Lucy McCoy Desktop Publishing Specialist	Mahlet Mekuria Sr. Administrative Services...
Subhashini Mesipam Administrative Coordinator	Getamessay Metaferia Driver
Ginette Mignot Administrative Coordinator	Ernest Moore Facilities A/V Technician
Ramela Morales Administrative Coordinator	Patricia Munoz Senior Accounting Assistant
Kamrun Nahar Administrative Coordinator	Annet Naluyiga Office Administrator
Ruchi Narang Administrative Associate	Rowena Natividad Senior Admin Coordinator /...
Abdel Kader Ndiaye Driver	Christina Ng Senior Administrative Coordinator
Olyn Panlilio Budgets, Contracts and Grants...	Chunu Paswan Office Helper
Sonia Penafiel Contracts Administrator	Betsy Pereira Administrative Coordinator
Abbie Perez Administrative Coordinator	Aamir Qureshi Senior Information Technology...
Shirley Raymundo Budget and Administrative...	Pilar Rickert Program Analyst
Susan Rivera Human Resource Administrative...	Ivy Romero Administrative Coordinator
Nicole Rosenvaigue Administrative Coordinator	Deepa Sahrawat Administrative Coordinator
Ibrahim Saleh Financial Reporting Senior...	Michelle Samuel Human Resources Coordinator
Angelica Santos Senior Accounting Assistant	Sarah Fodero Program Assistant/Receptionist
Alassane Seck Information Technology Assistant	Malika Shampine Human Resources Coordinator
Rahmana Shamsad Administrative Coordinator	Daniel Simpa Receptionist/Office Assistant
Jitendra Singh Office Helper	Vishrant Singh Administrative Associate
Seydou Tandjigora Facilities Assistant	Atnafu Temesgen Driver
Azeb Temesgen Administrative Coordinator	Meskerem Tesfaye Information Technology Support
Nelly Rose Tioco Senior Administrative Coordinator	Anthony Trinidad Staff Accountant
Carla Tufano Human Resources Specialist	Benjamin Uchitelle-Pierce Budgets and Contracts Assistant
Nikita Verma Administrative Associate	Ireen Wasambo Administrative Coordinator
Jay Willis Desktop Publishing Specialist	Sophie Wohlers Administrative Coordinator
Almaz Woldeselassie Administrative Service Assistant	Fikru Wubshet Office Assistant
Pam Wuichet Manager of Partnerships and...	Nahume Yadene Program Management Officer
Jason Yauney Strategy and Operations Manager	Kevin Yongongo Administrative and Financial...
Silu Zhang Administrative Coordinator