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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Timothy Thomas

Timothy Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His research focuses on the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity. Tim’s work involves developing innovative methods for simulated climate futures and model coordination between climate, crop, water, energy, and economics.

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SVRI Forum ’26

Where research, collaboration, and innovation converge

Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre

Bangkok, Thailand

October 5 to 9, 2026

  • 9:00 – 6:30 pm (Asia/Bangkok)
  • 10:00 – 7:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 7:30 – 5:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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The SVRI Forum is the Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s flagship event and the world’s leading abstract-driven conference on research, evidence, and solutions to prevent and respond to violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC), and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).

Held every two years, this action-driven event brings together over 1,500 global stakeholders, researchers, practitioners, survivors, policymakers, funders, and activists to share cutting-edge research, challenge the status quo, and co-create solutions for a world free from violence.

October 5, 2026

Pre-conference Workshop 13: Leveraging Anti-Poverty Programming to Prevent Violence at Scale: Evidence as Practice | 2:00–5:00 PM (Bangkok) | Lotus 3–4

October 7, 2026

Presentation: Digital financial inclusion and intimate partner violence: Experimental impacts of credit and insurance innovations in India | 5:00–6:30 PM (Bangkok) | Ballroom B

Click HERE to view the full program.

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