Shenggen Fan is Director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Since joining IFPRI in 1995, Dr. Fan served as a Senior Research Fellow and led IFPRI's program on public investment. Prior to IFPRI, he held positions at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in the Netherlands and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the University of Arkansas. He received his Ph.D in applied economics from the University of Minnesota, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in China.
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Dr. Fan's major research includes pro-poor development strategy, pro-poor investment, and rural-urban linkages in developing countries, focusing mainly on Asia, Africa and Middle East. He currently directs a research division that works on governance, development strategy, public investment, and rural-urban linkages; and country strategy support in China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and other countries.
Dr. Fan serves concurrently as Director of the International Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a joint IFPRI collaboration, and Adjunct Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University. He was also appointed Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Indian Dalit Studies, New Delhi and is a member of the editorial committees of several journals, including Food Policy and Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Dr. Fan is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Outstanding Alumni Award in Applied Economics and the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, both from the University of Minnesota, and the Outstanding Young Scholar award from the National Science Foundation of China.