Alejandro Nin-Pratt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit, based in Washington, DC, and has been with IFPRI since 2005. His research topics are development, economic growth and growth linkages and poverty, agricultural productivity, and trade. He has also worked on international trade of livestock and livestock products and sanitary measures affecting trade and their impact on domestic markets, smallholder producers, and poverty. Alejandro has worked in Ethiopia and Kenya for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Agricultural Economics Department at Purdue University.

Alejandro received his BS in Agronomy and MS in International Economics from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay. He received his PhD in Agricultural Economics, specializing in trade and production, from Purdue University.