Ana Ramirez is a French-Colombian national. She joined IFPRI in May 2011 as a Research Analyst for the Director General’s Office.

Between 2008-11 she worked in project management, policy analysis and research on agriculture innovation, Africa-Brazil research cooperation, gender, risk management and climate change projects across two World Bank regions - Middle East and North Africa and Latin America and Caribbean. In this context, she travelled numerous times to Bolivia, Brazil and Morocco.

Ana received an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics where she wrote her dissertation on the US-Brazil WTO cotton dispute. Previous to that, she received a B.A.(Hons) in Political Science from Nottingham University, UK. Her interests include international governance, trade, commodity risk-management amongst others.

She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.