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Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing, a research fellow, co-leads a research program analyzing the factors that enable individuals, households, and communities to move out of poverty over the long term. Her past work at IFPRI focused on how resource allocation ...
Amber Peterman

Amber joined IFPRI in July 2009 and works primarily on cross-cutting gender and development related research including the strengthening women’s assets program. She has particular interest in linkages between population and development outcomes ...
Andrew Dillon

Andrew joined IFPRI in July 2007 as a Research Analyst. Before coming to IFPRI, he conducted his dissertation field research in Mali where he extended a panel data set from 1997 and conducted a larger cross-sectional survey of 2,100 households ...
Bella Nestorova

Bella Nestorova, a Bulgarian citizen, is a Research Analyst at the Director General’s Office. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked at the African Department of the International Monetary Fund and the Sustainable Development Division of the UN ...
Betsy Pereira
Beverly Abreu
Bingxin Yu

Bingxin Yu joined the Development Strategy and Governance Division of IFPRI in 2004 as a research analyst to work on development strategy issues. She has a B.S. in Management Science from University of Science and Technology of China, M.S. in ...
Carmen Ruiz

Carmen Ruiz is a Program Analyst at IFPRI’s Donor Relations. In this capacity, she monitors trends in international funding environment, and facilitates management of donor relationships. Prior to joining IFPRI Carmen worked as a Social ...
Catherine Aragon

Catherine Aragon, a citizen from the Philippines, joined IFPRI in May 2009 as a Research Analyst at the Director General’s Office. She received her undergraduate and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines ...
Claudia Ringler

Claudia Ringler, a citizen of Germany, joined IFPRI in 1996. Her research interests are water resources management--in particular, river basin management--and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. Moreover, she is ...
Corinne Garber
Daniela Horna

Daniela Horna, Postdoctoral Fellow. Agricultural economist holds PhD in agricultural economics and social sciences from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She has gained international working experience through research and development ...
Darnice Graham
David Spielman

David J. Spielman, a U.S. national, joined IFPRI in 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow based in Addis Ababa. His current research examines the role and impact of public-private collaboration in pro-poor agricultural research. Prior to this, Dr. ...
Derek Headey

Derek Headey is a development economist, originally hailing from Australia. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Queensland, where he also obtained his Bachelors in economics with 1st Class Honours. His research is mostly ...
Ephraim Nkonya

Ephraim Nkonya, a research fellow, conducts research on land management and natural resources in sub-Saharan countries and central Asia. Ephraim, a citizen of Tanzania, earned a B.S. in agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture and an ...
Evelyn Banda
Helen Markelova

Helen Markelova, a Russian citizen, joined IFPRI in 2006 as a Senior Research Assistant with the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi). Prior to IFPRI Helen worked at the World Bank on assessing the impact ...
Hiroyuki Takeshima
Jose Falck-Zepeda

Jose Falck-Zepeda joined IFPRI in 2004 as a Research Fellow. His work at IFPRI focuses on the economics and impact assessment of biotechnology and biosafety. In addition, José focuses on agricultural R&D policy and technogical innovation in ...
Jose Funes

Jose Funes, has joined IFPRI as a Senior Research Assistant in DSG. He is originally from Honduras and received his undergraduate degree in Agriculture and Natural Resources from Zamorano University, Honduras. Upon graduation, he worked for the ...
Kenda Cunningham

Kenda Cunningham, a Sr. Research Assistant in the Director General’s Office, joined IFPRI in October 2008 to support the Millions Fed project. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies and a certificate in Immigration, Refugees, and Humanitarian ...
Klaus von Grebmer

Klaus von Grebmer, a citizen of Switzerland, is director of IFPRI's Communications Division. His work focuses on ways to communicate IFPRI's research findings to policymakers in developing countries and to key stakeholders in developed countries ...
Kristin Davis

Kristin Davis, a U.S. national, joined IFPRI in November 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow in innovation systems. She is based in Addis Ababa with the ISNAR division. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked in agricultural development in Eastern Africa. ...
Kwong Hii

Kwong Hii, a Malaysian citizen of Chinese origin, is an IT professional in computer services. He joined IFPRI in year 2000. Before taking his current position, Kwong received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with minor in ...
Lorena Danessi
Luz Marina Alvare
Lynette Aspillera
Manuel Hernandez

Manuel Hernandez joined IFPRI in July 2009. He received his PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University in May 2009. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Prior to starting his graduate ...
Marcelle Thomas

Marcelle Thomas joined IFPRI in 1988 and is now a research analyst in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division (MTID). As part of her ongoing work at MTID, Marcelle has joined the team on Globalization and Trade, applying the MAcMap dataset ...
Michael Rubinstein
Miguel Robles
Nelly Rose Tioco
Nethra Palaniswamy

Nethra Palaniswamy, a citizen of India, joined the Development Strategy and Governance Division in October 2005.At IFPRI, her work focuses on decentralization and local governance, the political economy of public spending, and on political ...
Patty Arce
Peter Shelton

Peter joined IFPRI in 2007 as an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist in the Communications Division. Prior to IFPRI Peter worked for the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD) in managing a ...
Regina Birner

Regina Birner joined the Development Strategy and Governance Division in September 2004 to lead IFPRI's research program on “Governance for Agriculture and Rural Development.” Her research interests include the political economy of agricultural ...
Rowena Valmonte-Santos

Rowena Andrea Valmonte-Santos joined IFPRI as a Program Analyst in December 2003 under a joint appointment with the Communications Division and the Environment and Production Technology Division. She became a full time staff member as a Research ...
Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick joined IFPRI in 1989. Her research deals with water resource management, property rights, and collective action. Much of her field work has been conducted in South Asia and Southern Africa. A citizen of the United States, ...
Shenggen Fan

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 ...

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