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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.

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

Where we work

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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.


Abdul Zabbar Sakil

Research Analyst

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Abdul Zabbar Sakil is a Research Analyst in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit, based in Dhaka. Sakil has expertise in handling large-scale, intricate survey data; survey management and questionnaire development; and in evaluating government policies. His research interests focus on food security, poverty, and labor economics.

Before joining IFPRI, he served as a research associate at the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling, a think tank in Dhaka. Sakil has previously been involved in projects related to child protection, PKA and household surveys, government policy reviews, and energy market economics. Sakil obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Dhaka.