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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.
researcher spotlight
Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.
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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.
Senior Program Assistant
Amina Yakubu Bashir is a Senior Program Assistant in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Nigeria. Her role includes administration, logistics arrangement, organizing seminars and workshop, office vehicle maintenance and assist with financial requests.
She holds a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Maiduguri, a post-graduate diploma in Management from Bayero University Kano, and a master’s in Development Studies from the Federal University, Dutse-Jigawa State.