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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.

Erick Boy

Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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


Xiaobo Zhang

Senior Research Fellow

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Xiaobo Zhang is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Chair Professor of Economics at Peking University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the European Institute for Chinese Studies. Zhang’s main interest areas are agricultural economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He is a co-principal investigator for the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey and principal investigator for the Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC).

Zhang has published widely in top economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. His recent books include Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions (2009), Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses (2009), Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (2010), Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (2014), and China Regional Innovation Report (2016, in Chinese).

Zhang is the chief editor of China Economic Review. He received the Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China) and Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics in China). His research has been cited about 14,000 times, according to Google Scholar. He received his PhD in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Languages spoken: Chinese, English


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